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Co-writer Lisen Dellenborg. The article is published in the book "FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING The Global North and South" (Malmö University). Open access. In recent decades, female genital mutilation has come to be regarded as a major breach of human rights. International anti-FGM agencies such as WHO, UNICEF and The Red Cross/Red Crescent have drawn up strongly worded documents designed to protect wom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-maria-frederika-malmstroms-new-article-female-circumcisiongenital-mutilation-and-human-rights - 2025-12-17

It is during a difficult time that Akiça Bahri has taken over the responsibility as Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in Tunisia. But with a doctorate in water management from Lund University and many international missions on her CV, she was ready for the assignment. Since 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, leading politicians in Tunisia have been trying to persuade Akiça

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lu-doctor-water-focus-and-cmes-connections-new-minister-tunisia - 2025-12-17

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director Seasonal greetings from the team at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies  This has been a strange and challenging year. We have just closed down the Centre temporarily due to escalating Covid-19 pandemic.  However, in 2021 we hope to be moving towards brighter times! CMES is set to launch some new initiatives to consolida

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2025-12-17

The majority of the new dust sources are due to environmental degradation caused by human activities. To prevent further dust source generation, the first step is to identify the new dust sources and predict the dust source occurrences in the vulnerable areas. We developed a novel approach that combines machine learning algorithms and remote sensing techniques for dust source detection and suscept

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-about-dust-source-detection-and-dust-source-susceptibility-mapping - 2025-12-17

This study identifies obstacles and barriers in distance learning and the use of electronic exams, comparing them to pursue success in the distance education system during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). It also aimed to determine the similarity and differences between the two main components of distance education. This is based on a sample of evaluations from professors and students at unive

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/obstacles-distance-learning-and-applying-electronic-exams-during-covid-19-new-cmes-research - 2025-12-17

The demand for water supply is continuously rising due to population growth and development across the world. In arid and semi-arid areas, particularly the Middle East, aquifers form the central freshwater reserves, hence are being uncontrollably exploited to meet water demand for an ever-increasing population and industrialization. To achieve sustainability in groundwater supply, the potential of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/application-advanced-machine-learning-algorithms-assess-groundwater-potential-using-remote-sensing - 2025-12-17

Groundwater resources provide a large share of the world’s water demand for various sectors such as agriculture, industry, and drinking water. Particularly in the Middle East's arid and semi-arid regions, with surface water scarcity and high evaporation, groundwater is a valuable commodity. Yet, groundwater data are often incomplete or nonexistent. Therefore, it is a challenge to achieve a groundw

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/application-extreme-gradient-boosting-and-parallel-random-forest-algorithms-assessing-groundwater - 2025-12-17

In this article CMES Spyros A. Sofos and Nazanin Shahrokni present a case analysis of Sahar Khodayari’s transformation into a global injustice icon, the #BlueGirl, after she set herself ablaze outside a courthouse in Tehran, Iran, allegedly in protest against the ban on women entering football stadiums. We focus on the ways in which ‘pity’ was generated, mobilized, and transformed into indignation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mobilizing-pity-dialectics-narrative-production-and-erasure-case-irans-bluegirl - 2025-12-17

The present article by CMES Orwa Ajjoub provides a thematic analysis of Hadid’s essay titled “Between Chechnya and al-Sham … Lessons and Examples: A Brief Political Study of the Chechen Experience and the Future of al-Sham,” which was published on the AQ-affiliated website Bayan in July 2020. In his recent article for Jihadica, Aaron Zelin proposed the emergence of a tripolar jihadi world consisti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reading-kadyrov-al-sham-adnan-hadid-chechnya-syria-and-al-qaidas-strategic-failure - 2025-12-17

CMES Helen Avery has published a chapter (together with Birgitta Nordén) in the book "Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals". Urgent structural change is required in higher education to allow collaboration both within and across universities so that achieving a rapid sustainability transition can become the overarching and main

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/we-can-only-do-it-together-addressing-global-sustainability-challenges-through-collaborative - 2025-12-17

Watch Rola El-Husseini give a talk on her current research project at the Winter doctoral school of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha.  "Theorizing Gender and the Sectarian State: Evidence from Iraq and Lebanon."  (a film on Youtube) Winter doctoral school of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar The objective of the winter school/program is to provid

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/theorizing-gender-and-sectarian-state-evidence-iraq-and-lebanon - 2025-12-17

Message from the director Starting off the new year with an exciting seminar program for the spring! CMES continues to be closed until 31 March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, we start off the new year with an exciting seminar program for the spring 2021. CMES program covers a broad range of topics ranging from the Arab Spring ten years on to the protection of refugees and environmental sec

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-17-january-2021 - 2025-12-17

By CMES Helen Avery (and Larmbert Ebitua, Khaldoon A.Mourad, Joshua Enyetua) A systematic literature review of 27 peer-reviewed articles Farmers as volunteers in research could potentially provide a rich resource for exploring sustainable agricultural research questions. To discern emerging patterns in citizen science-based studies on topics with relevance for sustainable agriculture, and reveal s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/citizen-science-sustainable-agriculture-systematic-literature-review - 2025-12-17

Orwa Ajjoub`s new report explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. By doing so, it interrogates the complicated relationship between these concepts and the ever-changing socio-political context in which they have developed. (CMES Research Seminar Feb 25) 1 What is the background to this report; why have you written it?

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/five-questions-orwa-ajjoub-writer-report-afghanistan-syria-development-theological-and-political - 2025-12-17

Ett spatio-temporalt dataset på mikronivå för geokodade individer i fem svenska församlingar, 1813-1914, har skapats av Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson och Lars Harrie. Publikationen finns fritt tillgänglig på: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, och information om författarna finns här: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson och Lars Harrie.Datasetet ger en detaljerad spatio-temporal beskrivning

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/historiskt-spatio-temporalt-dataset-1813-1914-publicerat-i-nature-scientific-data - 2025-12-17

Professor Torben R. Christensen är huvudförfattaret ill en internationell utvärdering av Arktis klimat och miljö, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic", (SWIPA). Författarna intervjuades för en kortfilm som nu är tillgänglig. SWIPA-rapporten släpptes den 25 april 2017 vid en konferens i Washington, "Bringing Knowledge to Action" som organiserades av Arctic Monitoring and Assessment-progr

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/torben-r-christensen-i-kortfilm-om-arktis-klimat-och-miljo - 2025-12-17

EASAC har gett ut en ny rapport om skogens multifunktionella roll. Bl.a. avlivas myten om bioenergins klimatneutralitet. EASAC – de Europeiska vetenskapsakademiernas gemensamma vetenskapliga råd – har gett ut en ny rapport som handlar om skogens multifunktionella roll med fokus på biodiversitet och klimat. I rapporten avlivas bland annat myten om bioenergins klimatneutralitet och där ges förslag p

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/ny-rapport-fran-easac - 2025-12-17

Hakim Abdi, som nyligen disputerade vid institutionen, har publicerat en populärvetenskaplig artikel på webbplatsen The Conversation. Hakim Abdi disputerade nyligen vid institutionen. Nu har han publicerat en populärvetenskaplig artikel på webbplatsen The Conversation. Artikeln har titeln ”Chad is the country most vulnerable to climate change – here’s why”.Artiklar som publicerats på webbplatsen p

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/chad-country-most-vulnerable-climate-change-heres-why - 2025-12-17

Jörgen Olofsson, Markku Rummukainen och Minchao Wu intervjuades nyligen i olika medier. Forskare i intervju om strategier för att uppnå klimatmålenJörgen Olofsson har intervjuats i Dagens ETC om en ny bok med 100 strategier för att uppnå klimatmålen till år 2050. ”Jag har bara skummat igenom listan, men jag ser att till exempel livsmedel, hur de produceras och konsumeras, är med. Det tror jag är e

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/medarbetare-i-svensk-media - 2025-12-17

Anders Lindroth intervjuad i Dagens ETC om skogens klimatpåverkan, och om varför kolhalten i atmosfären ökar. Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus vid institutionen, blev nyligen intervjuad av Dagens ETC. En artikel handlar om skogens klimatpåverkan. ”I princip vore det bästa för klimatet att bara låta skogen stå den närmaste tiden, om man snabbt vill uppnå resultat”, säger Anders.I en annan artike

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/anders-lindroth-i-intervjuer-i-dagens-etc - 2025-12-17