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Anne Buchmann, lecturer from Newcastle University - Australia, recently visited the department of Strategic Communication. Anne Buchmann, lecturer from Newcastle University in Australia, recently visited the department to give a much appreciated lecture for the master students that dealt with branding, popular culture and New Zealand. It was also an opportunity for the editors (from left in the ph

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/guest-lecturer-australia-visits-department - 2025-12-09

Håkan Bengtsson (CEO) and Anna Haraldsson (consultant) at Edmund Communication participated in the master course Brand Communication. They did a case exercise with the students and talked about the integration of branding in human resource management and how branding can support adoption communication within organisations. We were also joined by two adorable future brand experts who listened atten

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/edmund-communication-talks-branding-and-adoption-communication-our-master-students - 2025-12-09

Ett nytt forskningsprojekt vid Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation ska under fyra år undersöka de problem som orsakas av ökad turism till städer och skapa strategier för att motverka problemen. Projektet kommer att pågå under fyra års tid och finansieras av Formas med 19,2 miljoner kronor. Antalet turister i städer förväntas öka i framtiden och med turisterna ökar även de problem som påverk

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/nytt-forskningsprojekt-i-tvarvetenskaplig-miljo-urban-turismutveckling-i-fornyelse-hantera - 2025-12-09

Resultaten från projektet ”Digitalisering och visualisering av guidetjänster inom äventyrsturism” som Besöksnäringens forsknings- och utvecklingsfond (BFUF) har finansierat under de två senaste åren avrapporterades den 20 november genom en workshop vid Institutionen för Service Management och tjänstevetenskap, Lunds universitet. Forskarna Mia Larson och Cecilia Cassinger presenterade och diskutera

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/workshop-om-delningsekonomins-villkor-och-utmaningar-svensk-aventyrsturism - 2025-12-09

CMES Persian instructor Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi is contributing to the UPF magazine the Perspective with a piece about the fascinating relation between Persian literature and the current pandemic outbreak – and what this means for human affinity. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, while announcing the extension of quarantine in Spain, spoke to people and recited verses of Sa’di (d.1291) the 13th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coronavirus-and-persian-literary-humanism - 2025-12-09

Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling at over 1.3 mill

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-12-09

I början av 1900-talet åkte hundratals skandinaviska kvinnor ut i världen för att som missionärer sprida det kristna budskapet samt verka inom sjukvård och undervisning. Ofta handlade det om en livslång gärning under svåra förhållanden. I den här boken möter vi tre sådana kvinnor som dessutom kom att hamna mitt i storpolitikens stormar. Alma Johansson från Sverige, Bodil Biørn från Norge och Maria

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-cmes-svante-lundgren-and-maria-smaberg - 2025-12-09

In the seventh anniversary of the Gezi Park protests, Dr. Ömer Turan, Swedish Institute fellow at CMES, has published a chapter, in the volume edited by Maria do Mar Castro Verela, and Baris Ülker (Doing Tolerance, Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation, Barbara Budrich, 2020). Taksim Square’s historical backgroundThe chapter is comprised of three sections. It starts with Taksim Square’s h

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-publication-cmes-guest-researcher-omer-turan - 2025-12-09

On the 18th April, the town of Armanaz in the north-western countryside of the city of Idlib witnessed an escalation between Hayet Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the hegemonic jihadi group in Idlib province, and Hurras al-Din (HAD), the group believed to be Al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria. Reportedly, tensions escalated after HTS members attempted to expel HAD personnel from their bases in Armanaz. The dispute wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/about-power-dynamics-between-and-within-jihadi-factions-idlib-new-article-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2025-12-09

The professor is expected to contribute to the Master’s programme The Religious Roots of Europe with its associated research environment focusing on early Islam, early Christianity and early Judaism. Lund University is also the host of the interdisciplinary strategic research area The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), based here at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the Fa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/permanent-position-professor-islamic-studies - 2025-12-09

New article by CMES researcher Kholoud Mansour: This article aims at addressing the representation of the Syrian women in the media, the different barriers to their political participation and the politics of representation. The article uses contemporary empirical evidence to explore this subject, delving deeper into two experiences, the Women’s Advisory Board (WAB) to the UN Special Envoy and Wom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-women-and-their-participation-peace-process - 2025-12-09

The city of Idlib, which is the last bastion of the Syria opposition, has witnessed an escalation between two jihadi groups namely: Hayet Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din and its allies. Orwa Ajjoub have provided a contextual analysis of the situation, the ideological debate it has generated between jihadi-Salafi ideologues. He also touched upon the the internal strife within th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researcher-orwa-ajjoub-commenting-escalation-jihadi-gruops-al-aan-tv - 2025-12-09

"The economy decimated, Lebanon was falling apart at the seams. Then came the August 4 explosion in the Beirut port, and the medical, economic and social catastrophe took on gargantuan proportions. The dead have not been counted yet, as many are still under the rubble, but over 5,000 are wounded. More than 300,000 are said to be homeless." "The Beirut port is a key node in the Lebanese transport s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/im-devastated-beirut-city-i-thought-i-hated-cmes-rola-el-husseini-conversation - 2025-12-09

Can populism have a progressive dimension? Can we speak about left and right-wing populism? Or does it lack ideological /value content in itself? Can populism enhance democracy or is it detrimental to it? Our next debate will be asking these questions.Do get in touch if you would like to submit an article and contribute to the debate by emailing: spyros [dot] sofos [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Spyr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-contributions - 2025-12-09

"On June 14, the U.S.-led international coalition targeted the car of Abu al-Qassam al-Urdini, a senior leader of al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate Hurras al-Din (HAD), and his fellow jihadi Bilal al-San’ani on the outskirts of Idlib. Two days later, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Idlib’s dominant jihadi group, arrested a former senior commander, Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, who had defected from HTS to join Ansar al-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hts-and-al-qaeda-syria-reconciling-irreconcilable-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2025-12-09

Coronaspridningen i Jemen är bortom kontroll. Och det finns ingen officiell statistik som återspeglar den verkliga situationen, vare sig gällande antalet infekterade eller antalet dödsfall. Den 10 april i år registrerade Jemen officiellt sitt första fall i Covid 19, men vissa inofficiella källor säger att viruset hade kommit tidigare, som på många andra ställen. Trots att flygplatserna och nästan

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/krigsharjat-jemen-hukar-under-pandemin - 2025-12-09

We are pleased to announce that CMES Michael Degerald is one of the 2020 TARII Fellows! TARII, with the feedback and support of a scholarly review committee, has selected seven Iraqi fellows and five American fellows. Michael is one of the five American fellows.Michael Degerald, Lund UniversityTransforming Iraq: a History of Development and the Politics of Third Worldism from 1968-1991Read more he

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/2020-tarii-fellowship-awards - 2025-12-09

We hope you all had a warm and relaxing though probably somewhat unusual “hemester” summer holidays. The objective of this newsletter from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Strategic Research Area (SRA): the Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), is to provide an overview of Middle Eastern research undertaken at Lund University. NEW CMES LEADERSHIP FROM OCT 1, STAY TUNED:

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-12-august-2020 - 2025-12-09

By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run‐of‐the‐river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or inhibit the emergence of strong mobilizations through a comparison of four localities of the Eastern Black Sea region. The main aim of the cross comparison is to determine whether there is a relationship between the forms

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rethinking-political-economy-rural-struggles-turkey-space-structures-and-altered-agencies - 2025-12-09

Congratulations to CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis"! The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, regional and global levels.The geopolitical importance of Syria and the positions of the Syrian government on many issues, most notably the Arab-Israeli conflict and the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-0 - 2025-12-09