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Published 19 October 2022 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 - 2025-03-06
Published 26 October 2022 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 (U
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sewage-sludge-use-sustainable-tunisian-agriculture - 2025-03-06
Published 27 October 2022 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 i
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-31 - 2025-03-06
Published 28 October 2022 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 Universi
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landfill-site-selection-iran - 2025-03-06
Published 31 October 2022 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
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-goteborgs-posten-about-climate-migration - 2025-03-06
Published 2 November 2022 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 nor
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-receives-sabbatical-grant - 2025-03-06
By jan [dot] olsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 9 November 2022 Karin Aggestam and Ronny Berndtsson, Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, CMES. Photo: Jan Olsson Swedish universities and colleges condemn the violence in Iran where security forces have fired at protesting stud
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-cooperation-iran-precarious - 2025-03-06
Published 15 November 2022 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 art
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/detecting-changes-global-precipitation - 2025-03-06
Published 21 November 2022 CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed in an article about the ongoing soccer World Cup in Qatar in the magazine Forskning & Framsteg. The article was written (in Swedish) by Maja Lundbäck and published in Forskning & Framsteg on 18 November, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. Read the article in Swedish: "Vägen til
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-world-cup-qatar - 2025-03-06
By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 22 November 2022 Photo: Ulrika Oredsson What happened to the generation that experienced the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia as young? How are their views different from those who were only small children and do not remember the expectations of more freedom and bread? Studies in focus groups representing both Generation Z
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/young-tunisia-value-democracy-choose-otherwise - 2025-03-06
Published 28 November 2022 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored the paper "Analysis of Landscape Composition and Configuration Based on LULC Change Modeling" together with Masoomeh Yaghoobi (Shahid Beheshti University), Alireza Vafaeinejad (Shahid Beheshti University) and Hamidreza Moradi (Tarbiat Modares University). The article has been published in the journal Sustainability. Land co
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landscape-composition-modeling-iran - 2025-03-06
Published 29 November 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Using machine learning to determine acceptable levels of groundwater consumption in Iran" together with Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran), Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz), Mohammad Reza Ramezani (Griffith University), and Hamid Kardan Moghaddam
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-footprints-iran-machine-learning - 2025-03-06
Published 14 December 2022 The special issue "Applying Remote Sensing, Geospatial Information Systems, and Machine Learning Algorithms to Manage Groundwater Resources" is now open for submission in Remote Sensing MDPI (Impact Factor 2021: 5.349). In this Special Issue in Remote Sensing, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the foll
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-special-issue-groundwater-modeling - 2025-03-06
Published 23 December 2022 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
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-32 - 2025-03-06
By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 11 January 2023 CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed by Radio Sweden about the 12th anniversary of Mohammed Bouazizi's death in Tunisia and its aftermath in terms of the Arab Spring. The interview aired on 5 January 2023 on P4 Kristianstad. Below are some excerpts from the interview
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-arab-spring - 2025-03-06
Published 12 January 2023 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Forage Potential of Cereal–Legume Mixtures as an Adaptive Climate Change Strategy under Low Input Systems" together with Rajia Kchaou (Tunisian National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry), Salah Benyoussef (National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia), Sihem Jebari (Tunis
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mixed-cropping-systems-and-climate-change-tunisia - 2025-03-06
Published 16 January 2023 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Noninvasive Monitoring of Subsurface Soil Conditions to Evaluate the Efficacy of Mole Drain in Heavy Clay Soils" together with Akram Aziz (Port Said University), Tamer Attia (Port Said University), Yasser Hamed (Port Said University) and Tarek Selim (Port Said University). The article is published in the j
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/subsurface-soil-drainage-egypt - 2025-03-06
Published 21 January 2025 In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2025-03-06
Published 23 January 2025 Associate Professor Julie Hassing Nielsen's and Associate Professor Agustin Goenaga's findings indicate that exposure to the economic costs of pandemic strategies was not only associated with more critical views towards public health measures, but that it also made citizens more likely to see them as violations to democratic rights. Popular science summary: Business owner
Published 29 January 2025 Political parties in Western Europe are more responsive to voters than you might think. Across seven key political issues, Ibenskas and Polk found that parties adjust their positions to better match public opinion. Hypothetical example of responsiveness. Using data from the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys, European Social Survey, and the European Election Study, the study reve
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2025-03-06
