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12 May 2021

CMES Maria F Malmström gives a talk at the University of Sydney May 13

The series of talks is called "AraBooks: Literature, politics, society and the arts from the Arab world, the Middle East and its diasporas."

4 May 2021

Middle East Forum Newsletter #20 April, 2021

3 May 2021

CMES travel grant and research initiation now open for applications

The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (ME...

3 May 2021

Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Politics and Ambivalent Cairene Masculinities

Maria F Malmström is taking part of the conference: "Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: A Decade after the Arab Uprisings" Virtual Workshop Series (University...

29 Apr 2021

Negotiating (in)visibility: Street-making on the margins of Malmö, by Laleh Foroughanfar

Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of c...

28 Apr 2021

New CMES water research: "Soil moisture change analysis under watershed management practice using in situ and remote sensing data in a paired watershed"

Research group: Hossein Hashemi, Majid Kazemzadeh, Ali Salajegheh, Arash Malekian, Abdolmajid Liaghat 

27 Apr 2021

New Open Access research from CMES: Linear and Nonlinear Trend Analyzes in Global Satellite‐Based Precipitation, 1998–2017

The research group behind this article in the journal Earth´s future: Ronny Berndtsson, Hossein Hashemi, Sadegh Jamali, Cintia B. Uvo, George J. Huffman, Majid Kazemzadeh

26 Apr 2021

"The Affects of Change: An Ethnography of the Affective Experiences of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt", new book chapter by Maria F Malmström

The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the stud...

23 Apr 2021

Modelling the impacts of climate and land use change on water security in a semi-arid forested watershed using InVEST

This study, published in Journal of Hydrology, shows substantial spatial variation of the negative impacts of water supply and future water security across the watershed. This is f...

20 Apr 2021

Will Lebanon survive the crisis?

After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking...

19 Apr 2021

New CMES research: On the Geopolitics of Fire, Conflict and Land in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. ...

7 Apr 2021

Three Open PhD Positions at CMES

Three fully funded PhD positions on demography, comparative politics and water availability in the Middle East.

31 Mar 2021

Media Framing of the Arab Entrepreneur Woman

CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab participated in a Women & Children conference and gave a talk discussing the issues of the Arab entrepreneur woman.

30 Mar 2021

La participation politique des femmes une décennie après les révoltes arabes

Depuis quelques années, les quotas pour femmes ont fait leur apparition dans la vie politique de plusieurs pays arabes. Quel est l’impact ces quotas ont-ils sur les élections légis...

29 Mar 2021

CMES Mohammed Almahfali delivered a speech at the 44th UN Meeting, 46th Regular Session Human Rights Council - Geneva

26 Mar 2021

CMES Pinar Dinç gives a talk on the apologies and the changing state discourse on Dersim 1937-38 in Turkey

The title in Turkish: "Üzülmeden özür mümkün mü? Devlet söyleminde Dersim 1937-38" in a lecture series organized by Bogazici University philosophy students “Phil-Free”.

24 Mar 2021

Global Learning for Sustainable Development: A Historical Review by CMES Helen Avery

The review summarizes key findings of 53 peer-reviewed publications, published in English in the period 1994–2020 identified with the search terms “global learning” and “sustainabl...

24 Mar 2021

”The Failure of the Assyrian Lobbies at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919” New article by CMES Svante Lundgren

During the First World War the Assyrians suffered great losses as a result of massacres and deportations organized by the Ottomans. Between 250.000 and 300.000 Assyrians are estima...

22 Mar 2021

Three quick questions to Kaveh Madani, Yale University

Thursday this week Kaveh Madani is participating in a CMES Research seminar on "Rethinking Environmental Security: The Lessons Learned from the Middle East".

11 Mar 2021

Yemen’s Higher Education Crisis: CMES Mohammed Almahfali is one of the speakers

“Yemen’s Higher Education Crisis” – the second webinar of the IIE-SRF Dialogues series – will focus on Yemen’s higher education emergency and its impact on university professionals...