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Funding agency: Australian Research Council and SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-2023 A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainable peace. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to create a better and more peaceful world by 2030. However, the Middle East continues to be a conflict-ridden region and contemporary peacemaking practices tend to result in fragile se

https://www.cmes.lu.se/middle-east-contemporary-world-mecw/research-projects/gendering-peacemaking-middle-east - 2026-08-25

Duration: 2021 Hydrosolidarity 2.0 has been granted a Theme at the Pufendorf IAS (autumn 2021). A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to create a better and and more peaceful world by 2030, thus ending poverty, inequality, and urgently addressing peace and climate change. However, integrative methods fo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/hydrosolidarity-ethics-and-conflict-resolution-international-water-governance - 2026-08-25

Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2019-2021 The Middle East faces various environmental challenges, including water scarcity. Climate change makes surface waters less reliable and consequently adds up the pressure on groundwater resources, which are already the main supply for agriculture, industry, and drinking sectors. Overexploitation of groundwater leads to the depletion of groundwater resou

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/ai-and-satellite-imagery-service-sustainable-management-groundwater-resources - 2026-08-25

Funding by Human Rights Studies, Department of History, Lund University The ultimate aim of this project is to investigate the connection between Swedish democracy promotion policies and what is actually being implemented by Swedish aid practitioners in the name of democracy promotion in the Middle East. The empirical sources used in this study are official Swedish policy documents relating to dem

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/investigating-swedish-democracy-promotion-middle-east - 2026-08-25

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board Anders Jägerskog Senior Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Anders Jägerskog is Senior Water Resources Management Specialist at the Water Global Practice at the World Bank. Previously he was Counsellor for regional water resources in the MENA region at the Swedish Embassy in Amman, Jordan; Director, Knowledge Services, at the Stockholm I

https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes/cmes-scientific-advisory-board - 2026-08-25

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 University are invited to apply to the following calls: CMES research initiation The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) provides seed money for research in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/cmes-calls-and-research-grants - 2026-08-25

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 climate variation, land-use change, social, political, and economic drivers, and water management in time and space using remote sensing and artificial intelligence t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/ai-service-socio-politically-adapted-sustainable-dust-storm-control-middle-east - 2026-08-25

MECW Research Find the latest MECW publications in Lund University's Research Portal. Do you already know who wrote it? It is also possible to find publications via our researcher's personal pages. You can also take a look at the research project pages, where each project includes a list of publications.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/publications - 2026-08-25

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 the transnational within Arab feminist activism is at the heart of this project, which aims to explore how feminist practices and strategies for change-making tra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-feminist-activism-middle-east - 2026-08-25

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 groundwater and surface water resources of the ME in risk. In this project, advanced remote sensing (RS), machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) me

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-water-resources-availability-middle-east - 2026-08-25

CMES is a member of the Swedish Middle East & North Africa Network (SWEMENA). The CMES Director is also part of SWEMENA:s Steering Commmittee. SWEMENA gathers researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden who work and conduct research on issues related to the Middle East and North Africa region. On its website you can find information about SWEMENA activities and publications. You

https://www.cmes.lu.se/swemena - 2026-08-25

CMES is a member of the Swedish Middle East & North Africa Network (SWEMENA). The CMES Director is also part of SWEMENA:s Steering Commmittee. SWEMENA gathers researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden who work and conduct research on issues related to the Middle East and North Africa region. On its website you can find information about SWEMENA activities and publications. You

https://www.cmes.lu.se/middle-east-contemporary-world-mecw/swemena - 2026-08-25

FUNDING AGENCY: SRA-MECW. DURATION: 2021-ONGOING Since the start of the civil war, Syria has transformed into one of the most significant immigrant sending countries, both in absolute terms and when expressed as a share of the population. The Syrian exodus has had immense impacts on the Syrian economy and societies and has also affected neighboring countries in the Middle East region, as well as t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/syrians-work-essays-labor-markets-syria-and-host-countries - 2026-08-25

Azerbajdzjans fientlighet mot Armenien fortsätter på fotbollsplan (Svante Lundgren)Sedan kriget om Nagorno-Karabach i början av 1990-talet råder extrem fientlighet mellan grannländerna Armenien och Azerbajdzjan. I det senare landet har denna fientlighet lett till rasistisk hets, skriver Svante Lundgren.https://www.opulens.se/opinion/azerbajdzjans-fientlighet-mot-armenien-fortsatter-pa-fotbollsplan

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-media - 2026-08-25

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Dalia AbdelhadyDiaspora, globalization, Syrian refugees, integration, second generation, cultural expression, gender Mohammed AlmahfaliYemen, Human Rights in the Arab World, Capacity-building in Higher Education, Sustainable and Equitable Post-conflict Recovery Rola El-HusseiniLebanon, Hezbollah, Gender and politics, Arab world, Sectarianism Orwa AjjoubJihadism; Salafi-Jihadist groups; Islamic the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/experts-who-speak-arabic - 2026-08-25

Strategic Research Area (SRA) at Lund University CMES coordinates, supports and conducts Middle East research at Lund University. CMES aspires to foster multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives, approaches, and methodologies in relation to Middle East research. The Centre's core and affiliated research team has given rise to fruitful exchanges across different scientific fields and culminated in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east - 2026-08-25

120 CREDITS, 2 YEARS The interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in Middle Eastern Studies aims to develop deeper knowledge about the Middle East of today. Programme Overview The programme trains students in critical thinking and gives them the ability to apply this to current events and debates in and about the region. The programme also aims to educate students in social sciences theories and vario

https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes/master-arts-politics-and-society-contemporary-middle-east - 2026-08-25

أُنشئ مركز دراسات الشرق الأوسط في العام 2007 بغرض دعم الأبحاث وتنسيقها وتوسيعها في جامعة لوند ، حول الشرق الأوسط. ستؤدي هذه الجهود إلى تشجيع الأبحاث وإنتاجها عبر مقاربات نقدية أكثر ابتكارا ومتعددة التخصصات تجاه الشرق الأوسط   أُنشئ مركز دراسات  الشرق الأوسط المتقدمة بجامعة لوند في العام 2007 بغرض دعم الأبحاث وتنسيقها وتوسيعها، حول الشرق الأوسط. حيث ستؤدي هذه الجهود إلى تشجيع الأبحاث وإنتاجها عبر م

https://www.cmes.lu.se/about-cmes-arabic-n-almrkz - 2026-08-25

Ibn Al-Nafis Forum in the Swedish-Iraqi Studies Network SISNET at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies CMES organized on August 8, 2020, a virtual scientific workshop attended by more than 150 doctors, researchers and those interested in the Coronavirus.The workshop: Proposal to treat COVID-1-induced inflammation presented by Raed Mahdi, a doctoral student at Faculty of Medicine, Lund University

https://www.cmes.lu.se/activities-august-2020 - 2026-08-25