Published 16 May 2024 CMES researcher Heba Taha has published a chapter about Palestinians in Israeli international aid imaginaries. The chapter, "Dislocating Development: Palestinians in Israeli International Aid Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1960s", was published in the edited volume Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (IB T

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/palestinians-israeli-international-aid - 2025-07-17

Published 17 May 2024 CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has authored an article in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 11. The article "Assyrians and Kurds in Sweden - A Strained Relation" was published in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 11.Read more about the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies Svante Lundgren

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/assyrians-and-kurds-sweden - 2025-07-17

Published 20 May 2024 Source: Shahi et al. 2024 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored an article published in the journal Chemosphere. The article, "Transport and retention of functionalized graphene oxide nanoparticles in saturated/unsaturated porous media: Effects of flow velocity, ionic strength and initial particle concentration", was authored by Mahsa Shahi (Lund University), Mohamm

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nanoparticle-infection-soils-and-groundwater - 2025-07-17

Published 21 May 2024 CMES researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article published in the journal Diversity. The article "Climate-Change-Driven Shifts in Aegilops tauschii Species Distribution: Implications for Food Security and Ecological Conservation" was co-authored by Shirin Mahmoodi (Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center), Mohammad Jaffar Aghaei (National Plant

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-change-and-plant-diversity-iran - 2025-07-17

Published 22 May 2024 CMES researcher Heba Taha has co-authored an article in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. The article, "The Atomic Future: Technology, Labor and World Peace in the Thought of ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath", was co-authored by Heba Taha and Pelle Valentin Olsen. AbstractIn 1946, one year after the atomic bombings of Japan, Palestinian thinker ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath (190

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/atomic-future-arab-world - 2025-07-17

Published 30 May 2024 Figure from Mousavi et al. 2024 CMES researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article published in the Journal of Water and Climate Change. The article "Assessing the impact of global carbon dioxide changes on atmospheric fluctuations in Iran through satellite data analysis" was co-authored by Seyed-Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shah

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-iran - 2025-07-17

Published 28 May 2024 CMES Director Karin Aggestam briefs the committee members The Foreign Affairs Committee from the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) visited Lund University on May 27. CMES Director Karin Aggestam was invited to give a presentation about CMES and Middle East research at Lund University. The committee was also briefed on several other issues at Lund University, ranging from coopera

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/swedish-foreign-affairs-committee-visits-lund-university - 2025-07-17

Published 29 May 2024 Photo: Lotta Lundmark CMES Director Karin Aggestam participated in a podcast hosted by Folk och Försvar. AbstractThe war that broke out in Gaza following the Hamas attack on October 7 and Israel's response has once again highlighted the endurance of wars and heightened regional tensions in the Middle East.  At the same time, there are ongoing wars and conflicts in Syria and Y

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/prospect-peace-middle-east-0 - 2025-07-17

Published 31 May 2024 The Swedish Middle East correspondent Samir Abu Eid is being awarded his honorary doctorate at Lund University today. Full house yesterday when Middle East correspondent Samir Abu Eid, Swedish Television, held a CMES public lecture about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has also been interviewed about his excitement over receiving an honorary doctorate at Lund University

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/samir-abu-eid-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2025-07-17

Published 3 June 2024 Photos: Linda Eitrem Holmgren On 31 May, CMES hosted an end-of-semester lunch for our students, interns and staff. The participants of the Israel-Palestine reading course, our various Arabic language classes and our research interns were given certificates for their work this semester. Together with CMES staff, they enjoyed some delicious Levantine cuisine in the beautiful CM

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-certificate-ceremony - 2025-07-17

Published 4 June 2024 The city of Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank (Photo: Nour Tayeh/Unsplash) CMES is happy to announce the new MECW project for 2024-2027 which will focus on civil society actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territories This project explores the complex history of Swedish humanitarian initiatives in the occupied Palestinian territories through the concept of frictional humanita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-frictional-homebuilding-swedish-civil-society-actors-occupied-palestinian - 2025-07-17

Published 4 June 2024 CMES researcher Mattias Kärrholm has authored an article published in the journal Political Geography. The article, "Temporality, nationalism and the territorialisation of public space - Commemorational presences in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv", was published online on 26 May 2024.The article is published as part of the MECW project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities - Exploring Politic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/commemorational-presences-jerusalem-and-tel-aviv - 2025-07-17

Published 4 June 2024 Photo: Lina Eklund Apply by 7 June 2024! A 4-year fully funded PhD position is open in CMES researcher Lina Eklund's group on climate risk and adaptation in the Middle East. The research is focused on GIS, remote sensing and interdisciplinary approaches. Climate adaptation is fundamental for reducing vulnerability to climate change impacts, however the most recent Climate Rep

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-doctoral-student-climate-risk-and-adaptation-middle-east - 2025-07-17

Published 5 June 2024 CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has authored an article published in Chronos Revue d’Histoire de l’Université de Balamand. AbstractMore than 150 years after the birth of modern Assyrian nationalism, it is safe to say that it has failed. It was not able to inspire and mobilize most of the Assyrian people and did not achieve its goals. According to the established narrative, th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rise-and-fall-assyrian-nationalism - 2025-07-17

By hossein [dot] hashemi [at] tvrl [dot] lth [dot] se (Hossein Hashemi) - published 12 June 2024 AI generated image This Regional Outlook provides insight into an emerging environmental hazard: dust storms in the Middle East, one of the driest regions in the world. It also sheds light on the typical drivers and new technologies that can help investigate this phenomenon. Some sustainable mitigation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-dust-storms-middle-east-insights-satellite-data-and-ai - 2025-07-17

Published 17 June 2024 Photo: Ahmed Akacha/Pexels The course runs between 4 December 2024 and 15 January 2025 and isopen for PhD students in Sweden and beyond. Application deadline: 4 November 2024 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi is coordinating a course for PhD students offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences as an interdisciplinary single–subject course next academic year.  Interdisciplinary P

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-course-environment-and-sustainable-development-mena - 2025-07-17

Published 14 June 2024 Read the new CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and 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 from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars.Read the New

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-45 - 2025-07-17

Published 17 June 2024 Photo: Ulrika Oredsson Article by Fulbright Schuman scholar Dalia Dassa Kaye on her research on Iran and visiting fellowship at CMES In the article, "From LA to Lund: The 'Iran Challenge' from a (surprisingly) Swedish Perspective" (published on 13 June), Dalia reflects on her research on shifting European perceptions and policies toward Iran at a time of great geopolitical f

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/la-lund-fulbright-scholar-dalia-dassa-kaye-her-visiting-fellowship-cmes - 2025-07-17

Published 18 June 2024 LU i Almedalen CMES is organizing two events in Almedalen this year on 26 June. The events are in Swedish. Welcome to attend! CMES i Almedalen: Israel Palestina – en olöslig konflikt?26 juni 2024 13:15 till 14:30, Hästgatan 13, Visby, Gotland Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Vilka är de långsiktiga konsekvenserna av kriget? Hur kan destruktiva våldspiraler förhindras i framtid

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-0 - 2025-07-17

Published 1 July 2024 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored a new article published in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research. The article, "A machine learning framework for spatio‑temporal vulnerability mapping of groundwaters to nitrate in a data scarce region in Lenjanat Plain, Iran", was authored by Reza Jalali (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz), Parvaneh Tishehza

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mapping-groundwater-contamination-machine-learning-iran - 2025-07-17