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CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has received a sabbatical grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Rola will use the sabbatical to complete her book manuscript Performing Gender Equality: Arab State Feminism and the Sectarian Exception. In this book, she argues that most Arab governments instrumentalize women’s rights to show the West their adoption of gender-equality norms. She studies the link b

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-receives-sabbatical-grant - 2025-12-02

Swedish universities and colleges condemn the violence in Iran where security forces have fired at protesting students. Academic cooperation and exchange with Iranian universities, researchers and students can therefore be precarious according to Karin Aggestam and Ronny Berndtsson at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Karin Aggestam is Director of CMES and Coordinator of the S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-cooperation-iran-precarious - 2025-12-02

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson and CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi have co-authored the article "Detecting the Greatest Changes in Global Satellite-Based Precipitation Observations" together with Majid Kazemzadeh (Lund University), Sadegh Jamali (Lund University), Cintia Bertacchi Uvo (Lund University) and George Huffman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The article is published in the jo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/detecting-changes-global-precipitation - 2025-12-02

CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed in an article about the ongoing soccer World Cup in Qatar in the magazine Forskning & Framsteg. The article was written (in Swedish) by Maja Lundbäck and published in Forskning & Framsteg on 18 November, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. Read the article in Swedish: "Vägen till fotbolls-VM kantad av okl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-world-cup-qatar - 2025-12-02

What happened to the generation that experienced the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia as young? How are their views different from those who were only small children and do not remember the expectations of more freedom and bread? Studies in focus groups representing both Generation Z and Millennials in the region give unexpected answers but still hold some optimism for further democratisation. Sarah

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/young-tunisia-value-democracy-choose-otherwise - 2025-12-02

CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored the paper "Analysis of Landscape Composition and Configuration Based on LULC Change Modeling" together with Masoomeh Yaghoobi (Shahid Beheshti University), Alireza Vafaeinejad (Shahid Beheshti University) and Hamidreza Moradi (Tarbiat Modares University). The article has been published in the journal Sustainability. Land cover changes threaten biodiv

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landscape-composition-modeling-iran - 2025-12-02

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Using machine learning to determine acceptable levels of groundwater consumption in Iran" together with Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran), Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz), Mohammad Reza Ramezani (Griffith University), and Hamid Kardan Moghaddam (Water Research Institute I

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-footprints-iran-machine-learning - 2025-12-02

The special issue "Applying Remote Sensing, Geospatial Information Systems, and Machine Learning Algorithms to Manage Groundwater Resources" is now open for submission in Remote Sensing MDPI (Impact Factor 2021: 5.349). In this Special Issue in Remote Sensing, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: Groundwater potentia

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-special-issue-groundwater-modeling - 2025-12-02

New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issue of the Newsletter Sub

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-32 - 2025-12-02

CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed by Radio Sweden about the 12th anniversary of Mohammed Bouazizi's death in Tunisia and its aftermath in terms of the Arab Spring. The interview aired on 5 January 2023 on P4 Kristianstad. Below are some excerpts from the interview translated into English. Listen to the interview in Swedish here On 17 December 2010 Mohammed Bouazizi set fire

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-arab-spring - 2025-12-02

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Forage Potential of Cereal–Legume Mixtures as an Adaptive Climate Change Strategy under Low Input Systems" together with Rajia Kchaou (Tunisian National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry), Salah Benyoussef (National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia), Sihem Jebari (Tunisian National Research Inst

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mixed-cropping-systems-and-climate-change-tunisia - 2025-12-02

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Noninvasive Monitoring of Subsurface Soil Conditions to Evaluate the Efficacy of Mole Drain in Heavy Clay Soils" together with Akram Aziz (Port Said University), Tamer Attia (Port Said University), Yasser Hamed (Port Said University) and Tarek Selim (Port Said University). The article is published in the journal Water. Soil degrada

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/subsurface-soil-drainage-egypt - 2025-12-02

While many negotiators think the ongoing United Nations’ climate conference COP26 in Glasgow should already be considered successful due to global decisions having been made, Greta Thunberg and other climate activists argue that the summit is primarily a PR event which has excluded many groups from the negotiations. Doctoral student of ethnology at Lund University Billy Jones, is an accredited obs

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cop26-climate-conference-inclusion-focus-observer - 2025-12-02

Identical twins share the same DNA, but one twin can suffer from type 2 diabetes while the other twin does not develop the disease. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has now discovered that there are differences in gene activity in twins where only one sibling had developed the disease. The researchers’ discovery could contribute to the development of new treatment methods. “Identical twins

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twin-study-finds-type-2-diabetes-clues-epigenetic-changes - 2025-12-02

Science has the technology to measure the activity of every gene within a single individual cell, and just one experiment can generate thousands of cells worth of data. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now revolutionised the way this data is analysed – by using 3D video gaming technology. The study is published in the journal iScience. Advanced techniques in DNA and RNA sequencing hav

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-virtual-reality-tool-be-used-fight-against-disease - 2025-12-02

Many developing countries are making progress, whereas others are stalling or falling behind. In the latter cases, transformation capacity needs to be reinforced to enable the countries to meet present and future societal challenges. In view of this, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has now signed a four-year agreement with Lund University in Sweden regarding commiss

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/focus-sustainable-development-new-sida-course-africa-and-lund - 2025-12-02

Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within the Earth observation programme Copernicus, when satellites will be sent into space in the coming years. At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world agreed on a new document that for the fir

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-co2-emissions - 2025-12-02

With 10,000 new cases a year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer type in Sweden. To create equal, accessible and high-quality prostate cancer care, Region Skåne has introduced Organised prostate cancer testing, OPT. "Anyone who wants to should be allowed to be tested for prostate cancer. Studies show that early detection lowers long-term mortality", says Anders Bjartell, one of Sweden’s lea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care - 2025-12-02

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely contaminated wastewater in an abandoned mine in South Korea. The method, which took four years to develop, could pave the way for new types of drugs. The study is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Glionitrin A and B are two molec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development - 2025-12-02

Christina Isaxon has always been interested in how small particles in the air affect our health. As society’s use of nanomaterials increases, research questions about safety are becoming urgent. ‟We need to know more about the conditions in which nanoparticles can affect us and how we can safely handle these materials.” Her research is about understanding how nanoparticles are generated and releas

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/better-knowledge-needed-about-handling-nanoparticles - 2025-12-02