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Board Members of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies Agnes Andersson Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences Email: agnes [dot] andersson [at] keg [dot] lu [dot] se Agnes Andersson is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor in Human Geography. She is the PI of a comparative project on inclusive urbanisation in small towns in Uganda and Tanzania. Previous to this project, Agn

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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: Travel Grant (Spring 2025) Application deadline: 20 December 2024 Contact Karin Aggestam, CMES director, MECW coor

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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). PhD student in Economic History: Demography in the Middle East The PhD project and the doctoral dissertation must be focused on the demography of the Middle East, and the PhD candidate will will have double institut

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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

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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

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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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 writing retreat - spring & autumn 2026 The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports writing

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/cmes-calls-and-research-grants - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

Find our latest publications in the research portal. Latest publications The latest publications from CMES are available via the Lund University research portal. You can also find our researchers and current projects via the research portal. 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 publicatio

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SASNET, – Swedish South Asian Studies Network, is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). SASNET is a subdivision of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).Contact information:SASNET – Swedish South Asian Studies NetworkLund Uni

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CMES was founded in 2007 to support, coordinate and expand research at Lund University (LU) on the Middle East. These efforts will encourage and produce research with a more innovative, critical and multidisciplinary approach towards Middle Eastern studies. Our goal is to produce research at the highest international level. However we also believe that our research is vital for individuals working

https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes - 2025-10-27

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

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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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

24 January in Paris, France Three years after its debut, the Noria South Asia Program (SAPROG) is pleased to invite you to its third South Asia Research Workshop, organized in collaboration with the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) and held January 24th at INALCO - 2 rue de Lille, 75007. The Workshop is intended for PhD and advanced MA students in the social scien

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/saprog-research-workshop - 2025-10-27

6-7 April 2018 in Princeton, USA. The conference on Anxiety and Authority in South Asia will be held on April 6-7, 2018 in Princeton, NJ. At a time when a politics of anxiety appears to have led to a surge in populism across the world, this conference invites applicants to probe anxiety as a public phenomenon in South Asia in both historical and contemporary contexts. Papers may engage, but need n

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/princeton-south-asia-conference - 2025-10-27