By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 23 April 2021 Photo: Shravan K Acharya on Unsplash This study, published in Journal of Hydrology, shows substantial spatial variation of the negative impacts of water supply and future water security across the watershed. This is further increasing the pressure on its inhabitants, their economic activities and ecologic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-impacts-climate-and-land-use-change-water-security-semi-arid-forested-watershed-using - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 April 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/affects-change-ethnography-affective-experiences-2013-military-intervention-egypt-new-book-chapter - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 27 April 2021 Source: Kazemzadeh et al. 2021 The research group behind this article in the journal Earth´s future: Ronny Berndtsson, Hossein Hashemi, Sadegh Jamali, Cintia B. Uvo, George J. Huffman, Majid Kazemzadeh Ordinary linear regression models have been widely used for trend analysis in many related studies. This

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-open-access-research-cmes-linear-and-nonlinear-trend-analyzes-global-satellite-based - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 April 2021 Research group: Hossein Hashemi, Majid Kazemzadeh, Ali Salajegheh, Arash Malekian, Abdolmajid Liaghat  Soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land surface temperature are vital variables in water-energy balance, eco-hydrological processes, and water resources management, which can be influenced by watershed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-water-research-soil-moisture-change-analysis-under-watershed-management-practice-using-situ - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 April 2021 Photo by Jesper Ericsson on Unsplash Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of cities in the global North. In the Swedish context, as the demography of the cities is alt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/negotiating-invisibility-street-making-margins-malmo-laleh-foroughanfar - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 May 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström Maria F Malmström is taking part of the conference: "Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: A Decade after the Arab Uprisings" Virtual Workshop Series (University of Gothenburg). The title of her talk is "Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Politics and Ambiv

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/navigating-ocean-suspicion-affective-politics-and-ambivalent-cairene-masculinities - 2025-04-21

By karin [dot] aggestam [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Karin Aggestam) - published 3 May 2021 The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Research initiation CMES offers seed money for research initiation and preparation of applications for national and interna

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-travel-grant-and-research-initiation-now-open-applications - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 May 2021 New calls for research funding, and scientific advisory board in the making! While we are still waiting for warmer spring weather to arrive there are some encouraging signs that we are now moving towards brighter times. The surrounding of CMES is distinguished by beautiful Magnolia trees in full blossom and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-20-april-2021 - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 17 May 2021 Thursday 20 May Morten is giving a CMES Research Seminar on the topic: What is so Sectarian about Sectarian Politics? Identity Politics and Authoritarianism in a New Middle East. 1.    How has sectarian politics been debated before, during and after the Arab Revolts? The public debate on sectarianism easily

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-questions-morten-valbjorn - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 May 2021 Both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict see the other party as an enemy, which confirms the threat. It is necessary to put the civilians and their suffering in focus, says Lisa Strömbom. Photo: Shutterstock Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which  has harv

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-04-21

Published 27 May 2021 Photo: Jonathan Meyer on Unsplash External research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This project aims to interrogate existing boundaries to women’s participation in peace processes and identifies reasons for the failure of peace making to address the gendered foundations and impacts of conflict. The interdisciplinary research team consists of Karin Aggestam

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-research-project-gendering-peacemaking-middle-east - 2025-04-21

Published 27 May 2021 Photo: Isiah Gibson on Unsplash A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. However, integrative methods for joint social, ethical, human, and engineering approaches in SDG implementations are to a great extent still lacking. Access to safe water is a key element in many of the SDGs. Hydrosolidarity principles are important on a natio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-research-theme-hydrosolidarity-20 - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 June 2019 We wish you all a warm and relaxing summer. However, in only a few weeks from now the important Almedalen week starts. Lund University is as always well represented and many panels have connections to the Middle East and the dynamics of this region. Middle East Forum Newsletter #2 As well, keep your eyes a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-2-summer-edition - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 18 June 2019 CMES guest researcher Defne Kadıoğlu Polat just published a chapter in the book "German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics". Creatively Displaced? The Impact of Neoliberal Urban Policies on Immigrants from Turkey in Berlin "In recen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/creatively-displaced-impact-neoliberal-urban-policies-immigrants-turkey-berlin - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 June 2019 Svante Lundgren is a researcher at CMES. Two of his popular science books have recently been published in translation. The Assyrians - Fifty Years in Sweden Assyrierna - från Nineve till Södertälje (2014) have been published in Dutch: De Assyriërs - van Nineveh naar Enschede (AJN Press). It has previously

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/books-assyrians-svante-lundgren-translated - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 June 2019 Pinar Dinc, researcher from from CMES, tomorrow holds a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. The “Art” of Government: Reading Turkey’s Raison d’etat through Novels and Short Stories on Dersim 1937–38 Being a mountainous region with numerous bodies of water, valleys, and grottos, Dersim or

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/art-government-reading-turkeys-raison-detat-through-novels-and-short-stories-dersim-1937-38 - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 5 June 2019 Next week CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour is speaking at an event that marks the launch of policy papers by the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) on an engendered constitution, the return of displaced Syrians and reconstruction. The papers relied on the findings of a series of national con

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-syrian-political-process-return-displaced-syrians-reconstruction-and-engendered - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2019 From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, what has changed? CMES Researcher Orwa Ajjoub has written an article examining the history of one of the most significant opposition groups in the Syrian conflict, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). In it, he traces the group through four main phases: during the firs

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-history-hts - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 27 May 2019 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a post-doc that will be part of the research area regarding groundwater as a natural resource in the arid Middle East and how the use of satellite data and advanced machine-learning algorithms can be used to solve complex water supply problems. The ground

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-04-21

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 May 2019 Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! Middle East Forum Newsletter #1 May, 2019 The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2025-04-21