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Deadline for application: 30 November 2021 The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports writing retreats on Middle East research with the aim to finalise an article, book chapter, edited volume or a book for publication…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/apply-writing-retreat-cmes-spring-2022- 2021-10-25

Together with Esam Wasel (Thamar University), CMES researcher Mohammed Al-Mahfali has authored the article "Women Stereotype in the Book: Yemeni Tales and Legends", available online in the journal Ansaq. The paper aims to understand how…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-stereotypes-book-yemeni-tales-and-legends- 2021-10-25

The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports and coordinates research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Researchers at Lund…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/cmes-calls-and-research-grants- 2025-11-26

CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has recently been promoted to Associate Professor at the Division of Water Resources Engineering, Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Lund University.  Hossein Hashemi received his Ph.D. in…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hossein-hashemi-promoted-associate-professor- 2021-11-01

CMES researcher Spyros Sofos has authored the article "Space and the emotional topography of populism in Turkey: The case of Hagia Sophia", available online in the journal Cogent Social Sciences. Over the past decade, as ruling Justice and…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/space-and-emotional-topography-populism-turkey- 2021-10-26

CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has authored the chapter "Forest Fires in Dersim and Şırnak: Conflict and Environmental Destruction". Pinar's chapter is part of the edited volume Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement Thought,…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/forest-fires-dersim-and-sirnak- 2021-10-27

CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has authored the article "A piece of the Middle East in the north - the Armenian Community of Sweden", available in the Haigazian Armenological Review. The Armenian community of Sweden is small …

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/armenian-community-sweden- 2021-11-01

Funding Agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-2024 The goals of this interdisciplinary project are to identify the climate- and human-induced sources of dust and to determine and explain the factors affecting the dust-source areas such as…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/ai-service-socio-politically-adapted-sustainable-dust-storm-control-middle-east- 2023-11-27

New CMES Newsletter about 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…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-23- 2022-03-21

Find our latest publications in the research portal. Latest publications The latest publications from CMES are available via the Lund University research portal. You can also find our researchers and current projects via the research…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/publications- 2023-10-31

In 2023, CMES will be hosting the Olof Palme Visiting Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor The 2023 Olof Palme visiting professorship has been awarded to Raphael Cohen-Almagor, professor in political studies at University of Hull, UK, by the…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-hosting-2023-olof-palme-visiting-professorship-awarded-raphael-cohen-almagor- 2021-11-12

CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund will be coordinating an Advanced Study Group on "Wildfires in the Anthropocene" at the Pufendorf Institute, Lund University in 2022. The world is burning. Wildfires have in the past few years…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-advanced-study-group-wildfires-anthropocene- 2021-11-08

Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-ongoing Feminist solidarity transcends borders. Yet, there is a tension arising from an entrenched view of feminism as inherently “Western.” Challenging such a dichotomized worldview and exploring…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-feminist-activism-middle-east- 2023-07-17

This event has been cancelled. This event has been cancelled due to the current pandemic situation. The increased spread of infection and great uncertainty about the development of the pandemic in the near future, means that we cannot…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-house-cancelled- 2021-12-08

CMES affiliated researcher Mohammed Almahfali has authored the chapter "Transformation of Dominant Political Themes from the Founder to the Current Leader of the Huthi Movement". Mohammed's chapter is part of the edited volume The Huthi…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/political-themes-huthi-movement-leaders-yemen- 2021-11-25

CMES director Karin Aggestam has contributed to a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council on third-party mechanisms in conflict resolution and lessons learned from the Temporary International Presence in the Hebron (TIPH) Karin Aggestam's…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/third-party-intervention-and-international-monitoring-city-hebron- 2021-11-25

Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-ongoing The Middle East (ME) is an arid area with low precipitation and high evapotranspiration in most seasons of the year. Several natural factors and non-natural human activities have put the…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-water-resources-availability-middle-east- 2023-06-15

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Efficiency of Different Moringa oleifera (Lam.) Varieties as Natural Coagulants for Urban Wastewater Treatment", available in the journal Sustainability. There is a great…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coagulants-urban-wastewater-treatment-tunisia- 2021-12-07

The war against terror is coming to an end. Has China become the victor? The Middle East seems to be moving towards more authoritarian regimes. A large influx of migrants and refugees and increasing population growth are likely to affect…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trendspotting-future-challenges-middle-east- 2021-12-10

New CMES Newsletter about 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…

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-24- 2022-03-21