Published 28 September 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-30 - 2025-07-23

Published 29 September 2022 CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has authored the article "Good Tidings for Saudi Women? Techno-Orientalism, Gender, and Saudi Politics in Global Media Discourse", published in CyberOrient. Gender equality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still a contentious and hotly debated issue, both within the country and in global news media as well as social media. Not least h

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/techno-orientalism-gender-and-saudi-politics - 2025-07-23

Published 3 October 2022 CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has reviewed the book "Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa" edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno. The book review is published in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. In the review, Joel writes: "While many works have taken an anthropological or ethnographical approach (cf. Ghannam, 2013; Naguib,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/masculinity-middle-east-and-north-africa - 2025-07-23

Published 29 September 2022 Cover: Routledge Welcome to a book launch of the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas with editors Dalia Abdelhady (CMES, Lund University) and Ramy Aly (American University in Cairo) and contributing authors Öncel Naldemirci (Umeå University), Ángela Suárez Collado (University of Salamanca) and Pinar Dinc (CMES, Lund University). Event Information Where: CMES

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-routledge-handbook-middle-eastern-diasporas - 2025-07-23

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 30 September 2022 Oliver Scharbrodt is the new Professor of Islamic Studies at Lund University. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new Professor of Islamic Studies.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2025-07-23

Published 18 October 2022 CMES Phd researcher Joel Abdelmoez has written a Q & A on Qatar and the World Cup on the blog Tabsir. In the blog post, Joel describes Qatar politically and economically and discusses the controversies surrounding Qatar acting as host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. One issue is the fact that Qatar and FIFA have been accused of corruption and irregularities in relation to the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/qatar-and-world-cup-questions-and-answers - 2025-07-23

Published 7 October 2022 CMES scholar Svante Lundgren has authored the article "När den assyriska tragedin blev Seyfo: En undersökning av svens-assyrisk minnespolitik" [In English: "When the Assyrian Tragedy Became Seyfo: A Study of Swedish-Assyrian Memory Politics"] published in Historisk Tidskrift för Finland. Seyfo is the name Assyrians use for the Assyrian genocide. It is an Assyrian (Aramaic)

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/when-assyrian-tragedy-became-seyfo - 2025-07-23

Published 7 October 2022 Illustration: Linda Eitrem Holmgren This panel of Middle East experts will discuss: What is the status of women’s rights in Iran? How can we understand recent political acts of resistance and civil protests expressed by young people in Iran? What is the role of the Iranian diaspora, and what is the impact of these protests beyond Iran regionally and globally? The Centre fo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-panel-protests-iran - 2025-07-23

By Ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 11 October 2022 Illustration: Linda Eitrem Holmgren What is most surprising about the demonstrations in Iran, is how young the protesting girls are. So says Rola El-Husseini, researcher in political sociology and expert on women's movements in the Middle East.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leadership-needed-protests-usher-change-iran - 2025-07-23

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 19 October 2022 CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund were part of a group that put together a photo exhibition on forest fires in the garden of the Pufendorf Institute in Lund. Photo: Bodil Malmström Scientists all over the world agree: the earth is getting hotter

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/world-fire-how-do-we-adapt-warmer-planet - 2025-07-23

Published 19 October 2022 CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean will be giving a lecture on Lebanese politics hosted by the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF) in Lund.  Rola's research profile UPF's website UPF's Facebook page

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upf-lecture-lebanon-failed-state - 2025-07-23

Published 26 October 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "How Can Sewage Sludge Use in Sustainable Tunisian Agriculture Be Increased?" together with Nidhal Marzougui (Université de Carthage), Nadia Ounalli (Université de Carthage), Sonia Sabbahi (Université de Carthage), Tarek Fezzani (Université de Carthage), Farah Abidi (Université de Carthage), Sihem Jebari (U

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sewage-sludge-use-sustainable-tunisian-agriculture - 2025-07-23

Published 27 October 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-31 - 2025-07-23

Published 28 October 2022 CMES scholar Seyed Amir Naghibi has co-authored the paper "Optimal Landfill Site Selection for Solid Waste of Three Municipalities Based on Boolean and Fuzzy Methods: A Case Study in Kermanshah Province, Iran" together with Seyed Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Golnaz Darvishi (Shahid Beheshti University) and Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shahid Beheshti Universi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landfill-site-selection-iran - 2025-07-23

Published 31 October 2022 CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about climate migration in Göteborgs-Posten. The article was written (in Swedish) and published in Göteborgs-Posten on 24 October 2022. Read the article in Swedish: "En miljard människor tvingas fly – på grund av klimatkrisen". Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. In a new report, the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-goteborgs-posten-about-climate-migration - 2025-07-23

Published 2 November 2022 CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has received a sabbatical grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Rola will use the sabbatical to complete her book manuscript Performing Gender Equality: Arab State Feminism and the Sectarian Exception. In this book, she argues that most Arab governments instrumentalize women’s rights to show the West their adoption of gender-equality nor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-receives-sabbatical-grant - 2025-07-23

By jan [dot] olsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 9 November 2022 Karin Aggestam and Ronny Berndtsson, Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, CMES. Photo: Jan Olsson Swedish universities and colleges condemn the violence in Iran where security forces have fired at protesting stud

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-cooperation-iran-precarious - 2025-07-23

Published 15 November 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson and CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi have co-authored the article "Detecting the Greatest Changes in Global Satellite-Based Precipitation Observations" together with Majid Kazemzadeh (Lund University), Sadegh Jamali (Lund University), Cintia Bertacchi Uvo (Lund University) and George Huffman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The art

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/detecting-changes-global-precipitation - 2025-07-23

Published 21 November 2022 CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed in an article about the ongoing soccer World Cup in Qatar in the magazine Forskning & Framsteg. The article was written (in Swedish) by Maja Lundbäck and published in Forskning & Framsteg on 18 November, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. Read the article in Swedish: "Vägen til

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-world-cup-qatar - 2025-07-23

Published 15 February 2017 Anna Persson, researcher at the CEC is one of the authors of a new publication from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Arguments for more ecosystem services". From the report; Ecosystem services are the foundation of human welfare, yet the services are often invisible in many of society’s decision-making processes. This report contains statistics, studies and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/arguments-more-ecosystem-services - 2025-07-23