For the Media
Middle East Experts at CMES
Below, you will find a list of our researchers based on their areas of expertise, ranging from environmental sustainability and democracy to peacebuilding and religion. Clicking on their names will give you access to their contact info.
You are also welcome to get in touch with CMES coordinator Linda Eitrem Holmgren.
Democratization, Migration and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in the Middle East
- Dalia Abdelhady – migration
- Darcy Thompson –democracy promotion
- Joel W. Abdelmoez – feminist activism
- Lejla Sunagic – irregular migration, risk perception, life aspirations
- Nina Gren – migration, gender, family relations
- Rami Zalfou – economics and demography
- Rola El-Husseini Dean – gender and politics
- Sarah Anne Rennick – social movements and youth mobilization
- Svante Lundgren – non-Muslim minorities and diaspora
Environment and Sustainable Development in the Middle East
- Amir Naghibi – water resources management
- Behshid Khodaei – water resources management
- Hossein Hashemi – water management and climate change
- Karin Aggestam – peacebuilding and hydropolitics
- Lina Eklund – environmental dimensions of conflict, migration and climate change
- Pinar Dinc –political ecology and conflict
- Ronny Berndtsson – water management, and sustainability
- Sara Brogaard – land use, land change and livelihoods, climate change
Religion, Identity and Culture in the Middle East
- Anders Ackfeldt – popular culture and Islam
- Joel W. Abdelmoez – feminist activism and popular culture
- Karin Aggestam – gender and peacemaking
- Maria Padrón Hernández – Western Sahara, refugees, political violence, family relations
- Svante Lundgren – non-Muslim minorities and diaspora
- Torsten Janson – Islam, minorities and nationalisms
Security and Sustainable Peace in the Middle East
- Karin Aggestam – peacebuilding and conflict analysis
- Lisa Strömbom – conflict transformation, gender and agonistic peace
- Maria Padrón Hernández – Western Sahara, refugees, political violence, family relations
- Pinar Dinc – nationalism, ethnicity, identity and conflict
- Rola El-Husseini Dean – power-sharing, sectarianism and post-conflict societies