Published 23 January 2025 Orwa Ajjoub (Malmö University) visited CMES for a research seminar on the recent developments in Syria. The first CMES Research Seminar of the spring semester 2025 attracted a large audience at Finngatan 16. The seminar featured Orwa Ajjoub, Ph.D. candidate in Global Politics at Malmö University, as the guest speaker. Ajjoub’s research explores intra-jihadi violence and t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-conflict-over-challenges-and-opportunities-new-administration - 2025-02-09

Published 24 January 2025 CMES Researcher Amir Naghibi has written an article published in Global Ecology and Conservation. "Macroecological Predictors to Determine Future Refuges of Luciobarbus Species in the Tigris–Euphrates Basin: Rethinking Conservation Strategies and Management"AbstractFreshwater ecosystems, being highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, experience a greater influ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/macroecological-predictors-determine-future-refuges-luciobarbus-species-tigris-euphrates-basin - 2025-02-09

By webeditor [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (CMES Webeditor) - published 28 January 2025 CMES Director Karin Aggestam has written an article in The Conversation on the fragile ceasefire in Gaza and diplomatic challenges ahead. AbstractDonald Trump’s recent statement describing Gaza as a “demolition site” – and his suggestion to “evacuate” Palestinians in Gaza to Egypt and Jordan to “clean out that who

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trumps-recent-statement-gaza-transactional-diplomacy-and-quest-sustainable-ceasefire - 2025-02-09

Published 31 January 2025 CMES Researcher Svante Lundgren has written an article for The Conversation on the tense relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. AbstractAzerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, has launched a fierce verbal attack on Armenia, which he has called a fascist state. “Fascism must be destroyed,” he said in an interview on local TV networks on January 7. “Either the Armenian lea

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/armenia-and-azerbaijan-are-loggerheads-again-heres-why-tensions-are-rising - 2025-02-09

Published 3 February 2025 CMES Researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article in Ecological Informatics. "Enhancing Pan Evaporation Predictions: Accuracy and Uncertainty in Hybrid Machine Learning Models"Ecological Informatics, Volume 85, 2025.IntroductionEvaporation, as an important process in the hydrological cycle, plays a pivotal role in management of water resource and agricultural activi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/enhancing-pan-evaporation-predictions-accuracy-and-uncertainty-hybrid-machine-learning-models - 2025-02-09

Published 6 February 2025 CMES researchers continue to make an impact on The Conversation, contributing to Lund University’s record-breaking article count in 2024. Last year, Lund University experienced a record year in terms of articles published on The Conversation - an international news site that provides researchers with the opportunity to reach a broad audience. With 55 articles from 50 Lund

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-reaches-global-readers-conversation - 2025-02-09

Published 7 February 2025 Satellite images show destruction of trees (top) and greenhouses (bottom) in north Gaza. Yin et al (2025) CMES Researcher Lina Eklund has co-authored an article published in The Conversation about agricultural destruction in Gaza. IntroductionThe ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas makes provisions for the passage of food and humanitarian aid into Gaza. This support

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gaza-we-analysed-year-satellite-images-map-scale-agricultural-destruction - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 April 2020 Minorities in Yemen Yemen is home to religious and sectarian minorities who represent about 0.5% of the total population. In addition to Muslims, there is a minority of Jews, who’s presence has drastically shrunk over the years due to the multiple violations and displacement they were subjected to. Yemen a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-minorities-yemen-reality-and-challenges - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 March 2020 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University. Words from the director: The covid-19 will transform the ways we work and socialize in a manner we can still not oversee. Already now most research and higher teaching are done by distance mode. Even so, many of the planned research activities and meeting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-9-march-2020 - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 31 March 2020 CyberOrient is devoted to research on the impact of cyberspace and its representation on the Middle East, North Africa and wider Islamic world in Asia. CyberOrient welcomes Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University in Sweden as a new Managing Editor along with Vit Sisler at Charles University. An expanded CyberO

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-anders-ackfeldt-new-editor-journal-cyberorient - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 March 2020 In January-February 2020, three researchers affiliated with CMES travelled to Khartoum, Sudan for the official kick-off seminar and workshop of a 3-year project that is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), FORMAS and SIDA and entitled: "Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS): An Interdisciplinary Spatial

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-affiliated-researchers-launch-climate-research-project-sudan - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 March 2020 This book analyses the tensions that emerge within strong welfare states when faced with large migration flows. It also interrogates the phenomenon of the 2015 'refugee crisis' and its foreplay and aftermath in the context of Northern Europe and challenges the notion of crisis as a feature of contemporary

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-refugees-and-violence-welfare-bureaucracies-northern-europe-edited-cmes-dalia-abdelhady-and - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 March 2020 The rise of sectarianism in the Middle East and North Africa after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq has led to a new conceptual category – arguably as political as it is religious – which Rola El-Husseini has previously termed the ‘new Shi’a’. Rola El-Husseini In this formulation, groups not traditionally a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/political-exigency-or-religious-affinity-sectarianism-contemporary-arab-world-new-article-cmes-rola - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 5 March 2020 This article compares the discourses of building nations and national identities fostered in the content of school textbooks in the Republic of Turkey—a modern, territorial nation‐state—and the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria (hereafter Rojava)—an alternative state system model establi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/content-school-textbooks-nation-states-and-stateless-autonomies-comparison-turkey-and-autonomous - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 February 2020 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an exceptionally dynamic area that has undergone great changes politically as well as economically during the latest decades. Middle East Forum Newsletter #8 February, 2020 The region

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-8-february-2020 - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 15 June 2020 An innovative project has received support from the Swedish Institute under its “support for cooperation with academics from Turkey” scheme. “Turkey Beyond Borders: Critical Voices, New Perspectives” aims to foster collaboration between academics in Sweden and scholars from Turkey whose academic freedoms a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seminar-and-vodcast-series-draws-attention-infringements-academic-freedom-turkey-and-provides-forum - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 February 2020 New article by CMES researcher Orwa Ajjoub in The Conflict Archives - a platform created to showcase work focused on conflict, insurgency and politics across the globe including the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Central America. The website is a collection of news, articles, insights and analyses

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/orwa-ajjoub-after-baghdadis-death-why-did-islamic-state-fighters-give-pledge-their-new-leader - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 February 2020 New article by CMES Mohammed Almahfali & James Root in The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies - an independent think-tank that seeks to foster change through knowledge production with a focus on Yemen and the surrounding region. The Center’s publications and programs, offered in both Arabic and Englis

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-irans-islamic-revolution-does-and-does-not-influence-houthi-rule-northern-yemen - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 February 2020 Having just marked two months since its launch, #rethinkingPopulism has already published 9 articles and an interactive map tracing the topography of research on populism and gender. Continuing to pursue the project’s aim to contribute to a vigorous and constructive, yet widely accessible debate for a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-populism-published-cartoons - 2025-02-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 February 2020 Maria Malmström (Lund) discussed her latest monograph The Streets are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt with Professor Omar Dewachi (from Rutgers). Professor Maria Malmström is Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. Professor Maria Malmström is

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-graduate-center-city-university-new-york-maria-f-malmstrom - 2025-02-09