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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

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 - 2025-04-03

Published 18 June 2021 Photo: Daniel Olah on Unsplash A new study by Ivan Radelyuk, Mehran Naseri Rad, Hossein Hashemi, Magnus Persson, Ronny Berndtsson, Madeniyet Yelubay and Kamshat Tussupova. A common problem when studying groundwater contamination in low-income countries is that data required for a detailed risk assessment are limited. This study presents a method for assessment of the potenti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/assessing-data-scarce-contaminated-groundwater-sites-surrounding-petrochemical-industries - 2025-04-03

Published 17 August 2021 Published Open Access in the journal Human Ecology. The article is authored by Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklundh, Aiman Shahpurwala, Ali Mansourian, August Aturinde and Petter Pilesjö Environmental destruction has long been used as a military strategy in times of conflict. A long-term example of environmental destruction in a conflict zone can be found in Dersim/Tunceli province, l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/fighting-insurgency-ruining-environment-dersim-province-turkey - 2025-04-03

Published 26 August 2021 Anti-Black Racism is still very present in Yemen, with a discriminatory caste system that is based on skin colour. Nevertheless, there are initiatives and solutions being put forward to combat this and ways in which awareness is being raised. This paper seeks to explore the dynamics of anti-Black racism in Yemen and how resistance against this is expressed, as well as the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-black-racism-yemen-manifestations-and-responses - 2025-04-03

Published 26 August 2021 Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored two chapters on water security and comprehensive integrated water management. Water security by Baghban, S., O. Bozorg-Haddad, and R. Berndtsson (2021) in Water Resources: Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts and Necessities, Edited by Omid Bozorg-Haddad, IWA Publishing. Read more about the contribution here Comprehensive integrated wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-publications-water-security-and-integrated-water-management - 2025-04-03

Published 26 August 2021 Photo: Pixabay The Middle East, which is experiencing severe environmental challenges such as dust-storms, is most vulnerable to climate and human-induced environmental changes. 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 v

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-ai-and-dust-storm-control-middle-east - 2025-04-03

Published 6 September 2021 A new article authored by Maria Frederika Malmström, "Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence", was recently published in the journal Urban Studies.  Maria Frederika Malmström's article explores the Egyptian state’s production of desired manhood and destruction of unwanted masculinities in relation to home and displacement throug

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/masculinities-and-infrastructural-violence-cairo - 2025-04-03

Published 8 September 2021 Lisa Strömbom has coauthored with Bahar Rumelili the article "Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: Lessons from Israel and Turkey" which is now available online (open access) in Third World Quarterly. The article is part of a forthcoming Special Issue on agonistic peace, edited by Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen.  Abstract While an extensive part of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-recognition-turkey-and-israel-palestine - 2025-04-03