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CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction" together with Vahid Moosavi (Tarbiat Modares University), Ayoob Karami (Pooyeshgaran Forogh Fardad Consulting Eng., Science and Technology Park), Negin Behnia (Yazd University) and Christian Massari (Research Institute for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-and-predicting-streamflow-iran - 2025-11-08

Welcome to Pufendorf & Friends – A dialogue forum and After Work series at the Pufendorf IAS at Lund University. The event is co-hosted with The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the strategic research area (SRA) “The Middle East in the Contemporary World”. After work panel discussion on climate change in the Middle East With CMES researchers: Dalia Abdelhady,  Lina Eklund and 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/after-work-panel-discussion-climate-change-middle-east - 2025-11-08

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 latest issue of the Newsletter Sig

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-30 - 2025-11-08

CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has authored the article "Good Tidings for Saudi Women? Techno-Orientalism, Gender, and Saudi Politics in Global Media Discourse", published in CyberOrient. Gender equality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still a contentious and hotly debated issue, both within the country and in global news media as well as social media. Not least has the government app “Abshe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/techno-orientalism-gender-and-saudi-politics - 2025-11-08

CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has reviewed the book "Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa" edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno. The book review is published in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. In the review, Joel writes: "While many works have taken an anthropological or ethnographical approach (cf. Ghannam, 2013; Naguib, 2015;  Malmström, 2021),

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/masculinity-middle-east-and-north-africa - 2025-11-08

Welcome to a book launch of the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas with editors Dalia Abdelhady (CMES, Lund University) and Ramy Aly (American University in Cairo) and contributing authors Öncel Naldemirci (Umeå University), Ángela Suárez Collado (University of Salamanca) and Pinar Dinc (CMES, Lund University). Event Information Where: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16, Lund) and on Zoom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-routledge-handbook-middle-eastern-diasporas - 2025-11-08

The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new Professor of Islamic Studies. Oliver Scharbrodt came to the University last spring after taking up Sweden’s only professorship in Islamic Studies. “I was attracted by the fact that Lund is one of Europe’s classic top universities and that th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2025-11-08

CMES Phd researcher Joel Abdelmoez has written a Q & A on Qatar and the World Cup on the blog Tabsir. In the blog post, Joel describes Qatar politically and economically and discusses the controversies surrounding Qatar acting as host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. One issue is the fact that Qatar and FIFA have been accused of corruption and irregularities in relation to the election process. Another

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/qatar-and-world-cup-questions-and-answers - 2025-11-08

CMES scholar Svante Lundgren has authored the article "När den assyriska tragedin blev Seyfo: En undersökning av svens-assyrisk minnespolitik" [In English: "When the Assyrian Tragedy Became Seyfo: A Study of Swedish-Assyrian Memory Politics"] published in Historisk Tidskrift för Finland. Seyfo is the name Assyrians use for the Assyrian genocide. It is an Assyrian (Aramaic) word meaning sword, as t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/when-assyrian-tragedy-became-seyfo - 2025-11-08

This panel of Middle East experts will discuss: What is the status of women’s rights in Iran? How can we understand recent political acts of resistance and civil protests expressed by young people in Iran? What is the role of the Iranian diaspora, and what is the impact of these protests beyond Iran regionally and globally? The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), together with the S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-panel-protests-iran - 2025-11-08

What is most surprising about the demonstrations in Iran, is how young the protesting girls are. So says Rola El-Husseini, researcher in political sociology and expert on women's movements in the Middle East. On Monday, she will participate in a panel discussion on Iran, organised by the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. – Iran is rocked by major protests about every t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leadership-needed-protests-usher-change-iran - 2025-11-08

Scientists all over the world agree: the earth is getting hotter and hotter and extreme weather such as heat waves or prolonged droughts create a greater risk of forest fires. In a new photographic exhibition in the Pufendorf Institute's garden in Lund, visitors could take part of powerful photographs of how people, animals and communities are affected by forest fires. The fire season is getting l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/world-fire-how-do-we-adapt-warmer-planet - 2025-11-08

CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean will be giving a lecture on Lebanese politics hosted by the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF) in Lund.  Rola's research profile UPF's website UPF's Facebook page

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upf-lecture-lebanon-failed-state - 2025-11-08

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "How Can Sewage Sludge Use in Sustainable Tunisian Agriculture Be Increased?" together with Nidhal Marzougui (Université de Carthage), Nadia Ounalli (Université de Carthage), Sonia Sabbahi (Université de Carthage), Tarek Fezzani (Université de Carthage), Farah Abidi (Université de Carthage), Sihem Jebari (Université de Carthage), So

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sewage-sludge-use-sustainable-tunisian-agriculture - 2025-11-08

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 latest issue of the CMES Newslette

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-31 - 2025-11-08

CMES scholar Seyed Amir Naghibi has co-authored the paper "Optimal Landfill Site Selection for Solid Waste of Three Municipalities Based on Boolean and Fuzzy Methods: A Case Study in Kermanshah Province, Iran" together with Seyed Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Golnaz Darvishi (Shahid Beheshti University) and Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shahid Beheshti University). The article has been

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landfill-site-selection-iran - 2025-11-08

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about climate migration in Göteborgs-Posten. The article was written (in Swedish) and published in Göteborgs-Posten on 24 October 2022. Read the article in Swedish: "En miljard människor tvingas fly – på grund av klimatkrisen". Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. In a new report, the United Nations and the Re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-goteborgs-posten-about-climate-migration - 2025-11-08

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has received a sabbatical grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Rola will use the sabbatical to complete her book manuscript Performing Gender Equality: Arab State Feminism and the Sectarian Exception. In this book, she argues that most Arab governments instrumentalize women’s rights to show the West their adoption of gender-equality norms. She studies the link b

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-receives-sabbatical-grant - 2025-11-08

Swedish universities and colleges condemn the violence in Iran where security forces have fired at protesting students. Academic cooperation and exchange with Iranian universities, researchers and students can therefore be precarious according to Karin Aggestam and Ronny Berndtsson at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Karin Aggestam is Director of CMES and Coordinator of the S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-cooperation-iran-precarious - 2025-11-08

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson and CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi have co-authored the article "Detecting the Greatest Changes in Global Satellite-Based Precipitation Observations" together with Majid Kazemzadeh (Lund University), Sadegh Jamali (Lund University), Cintia Bertacchi Uvo (Lund University) and George Huffman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The article is published in the jo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/detecting-changes-global-precipitation - 2025-11-08