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This chapter explores feminist activism during and after the so-called Arab Spring, a transformative event that brought new challenges and a new political environment for feminist activists. At first, the overthrow of old regimes raised hopes for a more open and liberated society, but these hopes did not last long. Feminist organizations in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia have faced state repr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/abdelmoez-digital-feminist-practice-during-and-after-arab-spring - 2026-09-21

Why does peace diplomacy fail? What role do nuclear weapons play in security, deterrence, and peace? And is it possible to educate for peace? Welcome to a seminar on Peace Day 2024. 24 September 2024 13:00 to 15:00 Welcome by Isabel Bramsen, Director of Peace and Conflict studies The Failure of Peace Diplomacy, Karin Aggestam, Director of Centre for Advances Middle EasternStudies (CMES) Nuclear we

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/peace-day-2024-elusive-peace-israel-palestine - 2026-09-21

CMES affiliated scholar Dalia Dassa Kaye has authored an article published in Foreign Affairs. The article “Where will Israel’s Multifront War End? There May Not be a Better Day After”, is written by Dalia Dassa Kaye. It was published in Foreign Affairs on 2 October 2024After a year of war, there is a real possibility of no better “day after” in Gaza or the rest of the region. Talk in Washington o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/where-will-israels-multifront-war-end - 2026-09-21

Applications are now open for CMES Project Proposals (2025-2028) as well as CMES Writing Retreats (2025). Call for Project Proposals (2025-2028) CMES supports three-year-research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES encourages collaboration between scholars from different disciplines at Lund University

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-calls-project-proposals-2025-2028-and-writing-retreats-2025 - 2026-09-21

Sami Al-Daghistani has recently published an article discussing the emic-etic distinction in Islamic Studies with a special focus on Norway. Sami Al-Daghistani“Emic-Etic Distinction and Islamic Studies in Oslo/Norway,” Tidsskrift for religion og kultur (Journal for Religion and Culture), Issue 1 (September) 2024, Open Accesshttps://ojs.novus.no/index.php/DIN/article/view/2288/2260

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sami-al-daghistani-emic-etic-distinction-and-islamic-studies-oslonorway - 2026-09-21

Sami Al-Daghistani has won the Islamic Economics Research Award for 2024 by ILKE Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey, for his work on Islamic economics and ethics, and his book The Making of Islamic Economic Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021) has won a prestigious award in Islamic Studies and was also nominated for another European award. Congratulations Sami! Awards Research Award Sami

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/awards-sami-al-daghistani - 2026-09-21

In this closing workshop of the project the aim is to present the results and findings of the project’s empirical work and engage the audience in an open dialogue with the researchers and an expert panel in order to provide further insights and challenge some of the misconceptions on refugee movement and decision-making particularly the ones perpetuated in the media. The purpose is to shed light o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/refugee-decision-making-first-countries-asylum - 2026-09-21

Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy. It first recounts how a pop

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2026-09-21

On behalf of Lund University and the United Nations University (UNU), Prof. Erik Renström and Prof. Kaveh Madani invite you to the official launch ceremony for the UNU Hub on “Water in a Changing Environment” at Lund University. Lund University is proud to become the second UNU Hub in Europe to address the global issues related to Water in a Changing Environment (WISE). This initiative is created

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/united-nations-university-hub-launch-ceremony - 2026-09-21

This Regional Outlook focuses on the 2024 Jordanian parliamentary elections, their political consequences, and how the elections were affected by the War on Gaza. Earlier this fall, on September 10th, almost 1.5 million Jordanians (31% of eligible voters) cast their ballots to elect the country’s 20th parliament. The election’s major victor was the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-jordanian-parliamentary-elections - 2026-09-21

During Almedalsveckan 2024, CMES hosted a variety of events. Two panel discussions are now available to watch in their entirety: "Israel Palestina en olöslig konflikt" and "Kriser, krig och klimatförändringar – hur tar vi hand om begränsade vattenresurser?" Please note that the following article as well as the Almedalen videos are in Swedish.Israel Palestina – en olöslig konflikt?Vilka är de lång

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/watch-cmes-events-almedalsveckan-2024 - 2026-09-21

This Regional Outlook focuses on the prospect for Israeli and Palestinian peace activism and how, during times of pressure, solidarity groups redress their methods. In the aftermath of October 7th, with Israeli hostages still in captivity and ongoing war, destruction and violence in Gaza, prospects for future peaceful coexistence in the region seem more distant than ever. In conjunction, Hamas’ ha

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-any-prospect-peace-activism - 2026-09-21

Application deadline: 9 December 2024. A 4-year fully funded PhD position at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is now open for applications.The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies is coordinating the Strategic Research Area (SRA) and the research program “The Middle East in the Contemporary World” (MECW). The program conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-phd-student-political-science-nuclear-politics-middle-east - 2026-09-21

CMES Researcher Lisa Strömbom has written an article published in The Conversation on Israel's relations with the United Nations. AbstractIsrael’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law to prohibit operations of the UN’s relief and works agency (U

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israels-relations-un-hit-new-low-unrwa-ban-0 - 2026-09-21

En kurs i Canvas är aldrig bättre än sin struktur. En kurs i Canvas som saknar struktur blir lätt en kurs som studenterna upplever svår. Björn Fritz, studierektor på Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper och dessutom Canvas-koordinator berättar nedan om sina tankar kring kursstruktur:  Hur ser en bra kurs ut? Under det gångna årets arbete med canvas har det gjorts många bra kurser vid Lunds universi

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/du-vet-val-att-det-ar-strukturen-som-raknas - 2026-09-21

Foto: Damian Zaleski via Unsplash Canvas har en ny editor (ofta kallad innehållsredigerare) som kan göra det lättare att jobba med texter och länkar och att infoga bilder och video från studio. Innehållsredigeraren hittar man bla i anslag, uppgifter, diskussioner, sidor och quizzar. Editorn - en funktionsöversikt Arbetsytan ser ut som vanligt Det har tillkommit en ny meny som ger användaren tillgå

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/nya-editorn-i-canvas-ar-har - 2026-09-21

Foto: You X Ventures på Unsplash.com Padlet kan ses som en anslagstavla online som kan användas för kommunikation, interaktion och samarbete. Man kan skapa inlägg med texter, bilder, länkar eller film genom att klicka på padletytan och skriva.  Olika sätt att använda Padlet Ytterligare en anledning till att Padlet har blivit så populärt är att det är så enkelt att skapa ytor som kan anpassas utifr

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/nu-finns-padlet-utan-begransningar-pa-lu - 2026-09-21

Med tydliga lärandemål och ett gott bruk av Canvas kan vi göra bättre examinationer som kräver mindre arbete av oss som lärare. Här vill jag visa hur en komplex examinationsform kan göras enklare för både lärare och studenter genom att bygga den på ett genomtänkt sätt i Canvas. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Mellan hemskrivning och salstenta Många former av examination underlättas mycket av att

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/forenkla-med-formativ-examination - 2026-09-21

Att det är en konst att skriva bra flervalsfrågor är det nog många lärare som håller med om. Flervalsfrågor, på engelska kallade Multiple Choice Questions eller MCQ, är så kallade stängda frågor, där den som svarar får välja bland ett antal givna svarsalternativ istället för att själv formulera ett svar. Foto: Ashley Batz på unsplash.com. MCQ När man skapar sina flervalsfrågor måste man reflektera

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/konsten-att-formulera-flervalsfragor-till-ett-quiz - 2026-09-21

I kursen Reaktionsteknik ingår obligatoriska datorövningar. Vid datorövningarna används Matlab. Den pågående pandemin gjorde att datorövningar inte kunde genomföras på plats. Under datorövningarna får studenterna både hjälp med uppgifterna och det noteras vilka uppgifter som avklarats. För att kunna genomföra datorövningarna valdes att ta hjälp av Matlab Grader Foto: Ilyuza Mingazova via Unsplash

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/att-genomfora-datorovningar-online - 2026-09-21