By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 April 2021 Photo by Charbel Karam on Unsplash After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 April 2021 Photo by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. Since 2014, the natural environment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been negatively a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-geopolitics-fire-conflict-and-land-kurdistan-region-iraq - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 12 May 2021 The series of talks is called "AraBooks: Literature, politics, society and the arts from the Arab world, the Middle East and its diasporas." Thursday 13 May: Maria Frederika Malmström – The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019) More i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-maria-f-malmstrom-gives-talk-university-sydney-may-13 - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 23 April 2021 Photo: Shravan K Acharya on Unsplash This study, published in Journal of Hydrology, shows substantial spatial variation of the negative impacts of water supply and future water security across the watershed. This is further increasing the pressure on its inhabitants, their economic activities and ecologic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-impacts-climate-and-land-use-change-water-security-semi-arid-forested-watershed-using - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 April 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/affects-change-ethnography-affective-experiences-2013-military-intervention-egypt-new-book-chapter - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 27 April 2021 Source: Kazemzadeh et al. 2021 The research group behind this article in the journal Earth´s future: Ronny Berndtsson, Hossein Hashemi, Sadegh Jamali, Cintia B. Uvo, George J. Huffman, Majid Kazemzadeh Ordinary linear regression models have been widely used for trend analysis in many related studies. This

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-open-access-research-cmes-linear-and-nonlinear-trend-analyzes-global-satellite-based - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 April 2021 Research group: Hossein Hashemi, Majid Kazemzadeh, Ali Salajegheh, Arash Malekian, Abdolmajid Liaghat  Soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land surface temperature are vital variables in water-energy balance, eco-hydrological processes, and water resources management, which can be influenced by watershed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-water-research-soil-moisture-change-analysis-under-watershed-management-practice-using-situ - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 April 2021 Photo by Jesper Ericsson on Unsplash Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of cities in the global North. In the Swedish context, as the demography of the cities is alt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/negotiating-invisibility-street-making-margins-malmo-laleh-foroughanfar - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 May 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström Maria F Malmström is taking part of the conference: "Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: A Decade after the Arab Uprisings" Virtual Workshop Series (University of Gothenburg). The title of her talk is "Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Politics and Ambiv

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/navigating-ocean-suspicion-affective-politics-and-ambivalent-cairene-masculinities - 2025-02-07

By karin [dot] aggestam [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Karin Aggestam) - published 3 May 2021 The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Research initiation CMES offers seed money for research initiation and preparation of applications for national and interna

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-travel-grant-and-research-initiation-now-open-applications - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 May 2021 New calls for research funding, and scientific advisory board in the making! While we are still waiting for warmer spring weather to arrive there are some encouraging signs that we are now moving towards brighter times. The surrounding of CMES is distinguished by beautiful Magnolia trees in full blossom and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-20-april-2021 - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 17 May 2021 Thursday 20 May Morten is giving a CMES Research Seminar on the topic: What is so Sectarian about Sectarian Politics? Identity Politics and Authoritarianism in a New Middle East. 1.    How has sectarian politics been debated before, during and after the Arab Revolts? The public debate on sectarianism easily

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-questions-morten-valbjorn - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 May 2021 Both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict see the other party as an enemy, which confirms the threat. It is necessary to put the civilians and their suffering in focus, says Lisa Strömbom. Photo: Shutterstock Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which  has harv

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-02-07

Published 27 May 2021 Photo: Jonathan Meyer on Unsplash External research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This project aims to interrogate existing boundaries to women’s participation in peace processes and identifies reasons for the failure of peace making to address the gendered foundations and impacts of conflict. The interdisciplinary research team consists of Karin Aggestam

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-research-project-gendering-peacemaking-middle-east - 2025-02-07

Published 27 May 2021 Photo: Isiah Gibson on Unsplash A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. However, integrative methods for joint social, ethical, human, and engineering approaches in SDG implementations are to a great extent still lacking. Access to safe water is a key element in many of the SDGs. Hydrosolidarity principles are important on a natio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-research-theme-hydrosolidarity-20 - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 June 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in Nor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2021 #21 May, 2021 Message from the director   Summer greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies Finally, warm sunny weather has arrived and slowly but surely Sweden is opening up again since the vaccination program is now in full swing. At CMES, we are able to enjoy outdoor “Coron

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter - 2025-02-07

Published 18 June 2021 Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash One important step in binary modeling of environmental problems is the generation of absence-datasets that are traditionally generated by random sampling and can undermine the quality of outputs.   To solve this problem, this study by Seyed Amir Naghibi, Hossein Hashemi and Biswajeet Pradhand, develops the Absence Point Generation (APG) toolb

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/apg-novel-python-based-arcgis-toolbox-generate-absence-datasets-geospatial-studies - 2025-02-07

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 - 2025-02-07

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 - 2025-02-07