Published 10 June 2022 CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has co-edited the Special Issue "Agonistic Peace: Advancing Knowledge on Institutional Dynamics and Relational Transformation" in the journal Third World Quarterly, together with Isabel Bramsen (Lund University). The special issue contains several articles focusing specifically on the MENA region. The Special Issue is comprised of empirical studies

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-peace-middle-east - 2025-06-07

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 16 June 2022 Children of immigrants are sorted on the basis of preconceived notions with measures that do not take into account their own perspectives. Photo: iStockphoto How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2025-06-07

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 17 June 2022 Søren Liedtke Thorndahl (opponent), Hossein Hashemi (supervisor), Hasan Hosseini (Dr.) and Ronny Berndtsson (supervisor). Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren Congratulations to Hasan Hosseini for successfully defending his thesis "Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hasan-hosseini-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-06-07

Published 21 June 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. Summer greetings from CMES! The Centre will be closed from July 4 to August 14. Have a great summer and we hope to see you at our events in the fall! The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-29 - 2025-06-07

Published 6 July 2022 In this article published in Sydsvenskan, CMES scholars Sarah Anne Rennick and Dalia Abdelhady argue that the political mobilization of Middle Eastern migrants in European states represents a unique opportunity to revitalize our own democratic practices. Read the article in Swedish in Sydsvenskan Last decade, pinpointing political mobilization in the Middle East was a straigh

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-political-mobilization-opportunity-european-democracy - 2025-06-07

Published 8 July 2022 CMES is looking to employ an ambitious Middle Eastern scholar and political scientist. Last application day: September 15, 2022 General Information Last application date: September 15, 2022 11:59 PM CEST Type of employment: Permanent position Contract type: Full time First day of employment: By agreement Reference number: PA2022/2541 Link to the job listing in English Link to

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-position-associate-senior-lecturer-middle-eastern-studies-and-political-science - 2025-06-07

Published 1 July 2022 Cover: MTM CMES researcher Lina Eklund has been interviewed by climate journalist Peter Alestig for his new book on the effects of climate change in Sweden. The book,Världen som väntar: vårt liv i klimatförändringens Sverige (English translation: The World That Awaits: Our Life in Sweden During Climate Change) addresses the changes we are seeing in Sweden in terms of climate

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklunds-research-featured-new-book-climate-change-sweden - 2025-06-07

Published 15 August 2022 Cover: Springer CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the chapter "Mitigation and Adaptation Measures" together with Sahar Baghban (University of Tehran), Omid Bozorg-Haddad (University of Tehran), Mike Hobbins (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Nadhir Al-Ansari (Luleå University of Technology) in a new edited volume published by Springer. The chapter, wh

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sustainable-water-management-mitigation-and-adaptation - 2025-06-07

Published 17 August 2022 Photo: Ulrika Oredsson CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has been interviewed about Tunisia in the BBC World Service Podcast "The Inquiry". The podcast episode (from July 28, 2022) addresses the question of why Tunisia turned its back on democracy. Tunisia was a beacon of hope for democracy after the Arab Spring. The country rid itself of dictator Ben Ali after 24 years of r

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennick-interviewed-about-tunisia-bbc-podcast - 2025-06-07

Published 19 August 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions" together with S. Dehghani (University of Tehran), A.R. Massah Bavani (University of Tehran), A. Roozbahani (University of Tehran) and A. Gohari (Isfahan University of Technology), publishe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/water-scarcity-modeling-iran - 2025-06-07

Published 16 August 2022 CMES Director Karin Aggestam and Coordinator Linda Eitrem Holmgren have authored the article "The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace" published in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience n

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding-quest-sustainable-peace - 2025-06-07

Published 16 August 2022 The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on democracy in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-party states, monarchies and sheikdoms, with a few democratic state

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-democracy-middle-east - 2025-06-07

Published 29 August 2022 Cover: Lund University On Friday September 2, Laleh Foroughanfar is defending her PhD thesis in Architecture and Built Environment, "The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö". Welcome to attend! Laleh Foroughanfar will be defending her PhD thesis The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (R

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence-street-associations-migration-and-infrastructural-reproduction-norra - 2025-06-07

Published 23 August 2022 CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady has co-authored the article "How capital shapes refugees’ access to the labour market: the case of Syrians in Sweden" together with Akram Al Ariss (TBS Education), published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management. This paper highlights the ways Syrian refugees in Sweden utilise the different forms of capital available to t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-refugees-swedish-labour-market - 2025-06-07

Published 22 August 2022 The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on gender-just peace in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Gender-Just Peace in the Middle East - Is It Possible? (Jämställd fred i Mellanöstern – är det möjligt?) July 6, 2022, 13:45-14:45, Hästgatan 13 in Visby How is the UN's Women, Peace and Security agenda implemented in the Middle East and North Africa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-gender-just-peace-middle-east - 2025-06-07

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 30 August 2022 Photo: Jason Blackeye on Unsplash The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in b

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2025-06-07

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 2 September 2022 Jennifer Mack (Supervisor), Carina Listerborn (Supervisor), Laleh Foroughanfar (Dr.), Michele Lancione (Faculty Opponent) and Mattias Kärrholm (Main Supervisor). Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren Congratulations to Laleh Foroughanfar for successfully defending her thesis "The Street of Associ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/laleh-foroughanfar-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-06-07

Published 7 September 2022 Farmers trying to save their livestock from a spreading forest fire in Turkey in 2021. Photo: Yasin Akgül The World is Burning is a photo exhibition about the causes and effects of wildfires in the anthropocene. It opens on Sept. 17 at 12:30 and runs until October 10 in the garden of the Pufendorf Institute. All are welcome! Over the last years, wildfires have become mor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-wildfire-photo-exhibition-world-burning - 2025-06-07

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 6 September 2022 CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about the recent floods in Pakistan in Dagens Nyheter. The article was written (in Swedish) by Alexandra Urisman Otto and published on August 30, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. More than

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-about-climate-migration-pakistan-dagens-nyheter - 2025-06-07

Published 13 September 2022 A presentation during the conference, the conference poster and the Columbia Global Center in Amman. Photo: Helen Avery CMES scholar Helen Avery organized a well-attended and successful two-day workshop on community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation. The workshop, "Community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation of agriculture and water manag

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemeni-capacity-building-workshop-climate-adaptation - 2025-06-07