December 16, at 16 00-18 00 the author Maria F Malmström has invited four guests: Jessica Winegar, Nina Gren, Jonas Frykman, Anja Franck to talk about her book. Place: CMES Finngatan 16. Her recently released book ‘The streets are talking to me’ focuses on the sensory aspects of the Egyptian revolution. "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous ev

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt-book-talk - 2025-08-23

New article by CMES water researchers in the journal "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters": Lake Urmia (LU) in northwestern Iran has largely shrunk over the last two decades. The emerged bare, salty soil could turn into a threatening new dust source for the densely populated region around it. Hossein Hashemi is one of the researchers from CMES/LTH: - To quantify LU as a dust source, we exam

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dust-lake-urmia-threatening-densely-populated-region-iran - 2025-08-23

Islamism är ett brett fenomen med många uttrycksformer som måste förstås utifrån sin geografiska och historiska kontext. Det var huvudtesen när islamologen Torsten Janson, universitetslektor vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier på Lunds universitet, nyligen höll föredrag i Hässleholms stadsbibliotek. Jansons exempel innefattar superhjältar i islamiska seriealbum såväl som Muslimska brödraskapets fö

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamolog-ger-svar-om-islamism-och-ibn-rushd-cmes-torsten-janson-hassleholm-newspaper - 2025-08-23

Försvinnanden och interneringar bland återvändande flyktingar i Syrien, främlingsfientlighet i grannländer och krigets fortgång skapar en omöjlig situation för flyktingarna. Läs Kholoud Mansours artikel om svårigheten att återvända till Syrien. Trycket på syriska flyktingar att återvända ökar. Främlingsfientlig retorik och ekonomisk stress gör deras tillvaro i grannländerna allt svårare. Men från

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/pest-eller-kolera-syrier-kan-inte-atervanda-hem-swedish-cmes-kholoud-mansour - 2025-08-23

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global politics, with a focus on the Middle East, North Africa and citizens in the Diaspora. Jessica Winegar is a sociocultural anthropologist.          How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? NEW TIME AND PLACE:December, 17, 2019: Jessica Wi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-time-and-place-passion-and-global-politics-conversation-series-jessica-winegar - 2025-08-23

Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University Date: 11 November 2019, 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM Research seminar with Maria Malmström, Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern, Lund University and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York City. The Streets Are Talking to Me. Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt. Participants: Maria M

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-discussion-maria-malmstrom-streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-08-23

The magazine will be distributed to the faculties, FSI (Sektion Forskning, Samverkan och Innovation), External relations, LU's management, Bishop's House, Lund municipality via meetings, conferences etc. On page 12-15 you will find an article on Rola El Husseini´s research about gender and politics in the Middle East. WIDELY SPREAD AROUND THE WORLDIt will also be sent to Lärosäten Syd's office in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/printed-version-magazine-mission-possible - 2025-08-23

CMES Helen Avery attended the workshop Defending and Exhibiting Diversity in Syrian Museums, 29-31 October 2019. "Looking back to a rich history of the Middle Ages, medieval collections are an integral part of many Arab Museums. This is especially true for the Arab countries in Northern Africa and the Near East: From Morocco to Iraq there exist plenty of large and small, state owned and private mu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/defending-and-exhibiting-diversity-syrian-museums-beirut - 2025-08-23

Come and watch this film with us at November 4, at 4 pm! FIKA will be served here at 3 30 pm. The Seven Doors is a local story told from a universal perspective. Instead of foregrounding “our values”, it questions the status quo, and also makes inroads for imagining less cynical alternatives—to prioritize inclusion rather than exclusion, to find desirable paths rather than pointing out wrong paths

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seven-doors-documentary-film-film-maker-and-researcher-mehmet-mim-kurt - 2025-08-23

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University - read here or subscribe! Middle East Forum Newsletter #4 October, 2019 To the full newsletter2019-10-29

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-4-october-2019 - 2025-08-23

With a background in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mehran Naseri Rad is currently doing his Ph.D. at the Division of Water Resources Engineering and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University. Mehran Naseri Rad. His job is to look at environmental pollutions and particularly soil and groundwater contamination to find better options for managing them.Not enough attention has

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/working-new-multi-disciplinary-solutions-managing-water-problems-middle-east - 2025-08-23

"We must historicize the interaction between women and the state regarding the ban, as well as the broader societal and cultural barriers, intrastate divides and international dynamics that have contributed to the longevity of the exclusion of women from sports spectatorship over the long forty years that Iranian women have been left out in the cold. Without underestimating the symbolic role of Sa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mobilizing-pity-iranian-women-long-road-azadi-stadium-cmes-nazanin-shahrokni-and-spyros-sofos - 2025-08-23

Researcher Orwa Ajoub: "The danger of ISIS will not end with the killing of Al-Baghdadi" CMES affiliated Orwa Ajoub in رادیو السوید Radio Sweden Arabic. في تعليقه لراديو السويد على مقتل زعيم تنظيم داعش أبو بكر البغدادي، قال الباحث بمركز دراسات الشرق الأوسط بجامعة لوند عروة عجوب، أن سقوط الارهابي البغدادي قد يؤثر على التنظيم، ولكنه لا يعني نهايته بل ان اديولوجيته قد تستمر عبر ما يعرف بـ "الذئاب الم

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/orwa-ajoub-radio-sweden-arabic-killing-al-baghdadi - 2025-08-23

The UN Migration's first online talk show to break all the barriers and get you closer to the different aspects and opportunities of migration. "Hijrah Talk" Episode 4: Successful Cultural Integration Stories with Dr. Dalia Abdelhady. Photo: IOM MENA Watch Hijrah Talk's 4th episode to learn more about Successful Cultural Integration Stories with Dalia Abdelhady.In English with Arabic subtitles.201

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/un-migration-successful-cultural-integration-stories-filmed-interview-cmes-dalia-abdelhady - 2025-08-23

An important barrier to interdisciplinary work is the difficulty to communicate over disciplinary boundaries. The seminar series on concepts, of which the seminar on Capacity Building is the fourth, is intended to create a platform for the discussions needed to overcome such barriers. There will be interdisciplinary presentations to straighten out the concept of Capacity Building as a research per

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/capacity-building-research-concept - 2025-08-23

The Embassy of Canada to Sweden and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University are pleased to invite you to a seminar on Leaving Radical Society: Processes of Exit from Violent Extremism. Leaving Radical Society: Processes of Exit from Violent Extremism In recent years, focus on the incidence of radicalization leading to violence in society has increased throughout Europe and North A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leaving-radical-society-processes-exit-violent-extremism - 2025-08-23

Workshop in London, 10–12 October, 2019, at Aga Khan Centre Participants: Jonas OtterbeckMaria Frederika MalmströmCristina Moreno AlmeidaTom RiceSama AlshaibiMichael FrishkopfRobert SaundersDeborah KapchanAnja FranckDarci SprengelAnne-Mette KirkegaardMartin SköldMarc MichaelZiad FahmyMark LeVineTed SwedenburgShayna SilversteinStefan Williamson FaMichael Muhammad KnightTorsten JansonGabriella Calch

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/touching-sound-passion-and-global-politics - 2025-08-23

Tisdag 12 november kl. 18-19 Pufendorfinstitutet, Biskopsgatan 3 Medverkande: Olof Heilo, Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul Samuel Rubenson, Centrum för Teologi och Religionsvetenskap Vägar till Bysans Olof Heilo (red.), Vägar till Bysans, Norma förlag 2019142 sidor, med 50 kartor och illustrationerBokbeställning: www.artos.se2019-10-17

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/vagar-till-bysans-bokpresentation-med-anforanden - 2025-08-23

Associate Professor Varuzhan Geghamyan is visiting Lund University. He works at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University. He is a Turkey scholar, but the Faculty has three departments: for Turkish, Arabic and Iranian studies. While Professor Varuzhan Geghamyan is here he will give three public lectures:Monday, October 21, at 12:00 noon at CMES: Personality cults in Modern Turkey

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-turkey-and-armenia-professor-varuzhan-geghamyan - 2025-08-23

Three experts on Turkey from CMES will visit Stockholm and SUITS, the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, in December. CMES at SUITS The researchers are:Pinar DincOmer TuranSpyros Sofos2019-10-15

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-suits-stockholm - 2025-08-23