By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 15 August 2019 CMES Rola El-Husseini participated last week in the annual MESA meeting in New Orleans where she had co-organised a panel titled "Breaking Boundaries or Entrenching Old Ones? Post-Arab Spring Experiences of Women and Political Representation". She also presented a paper titled "Theorising State Feminism

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/breaking-boundaries-or-entrenching-old-ones-post-arab-spring-experiences-women-and-political - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 November 2019 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt-book-talk - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 18 November 2019 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. Ho

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dust-lake-urmia-threatening-densely-populated-region-iran - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 18 November 2019 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. Ja

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamolog-ger-svar-om-islamism-och-ibn-rushd-cmes-torsten-janson-hassleholm-newspaper - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 November 2019 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. Främling

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/pest-eller-kolera-syrier-kan-inte-atervanda-hem-swedish-cmes-kholoud-mansour - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 November 2019 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 col

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-time-and-place-passion-and-global-politics-conversation-series-jessica-winegar - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 November 2019 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 Yor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-discussion-maria-malmstrom-streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 6 November 2019 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 t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/printed-version-magazine-mission-possible - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 5 November 2019 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 N

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/defending-and-exhibiting-diversity-syrian-museums-beirut - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 November 2019 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 prioriti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seven-doors-documentary-film-film-maker-and-researcher-mehmet-mim-kurt - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 October 2019 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 - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 October 2019 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/working-new-multi-disciplinary-solutions-managing-water-problems-middle-east - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 September 2019 "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 t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mobilizing-pity-iranian-women-long-road-azadi-stadium-cmes-nazanin-shahrokni-and-spyros-sofos - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 October 2019 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 البغداد

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/orwa-ajoub-radio-sweden-arabic-killing-al-baghdadi - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 October 2019 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 S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/un-migration-successful-cultural-integration-stories-filmed-interview-cmes-dalia-abdelhady - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 October 2019 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 inte

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/capacity-building-research-concept - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 23 October 2019 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 incide

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leaving-radical-society-processes-exit-violent-extremism - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 23 October 2019 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 Swed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/touching-sound-passion-and-global-politics - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 17 October 2019 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 illustration

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/vagar-till-bysans-bokpresentation-med-anforanden - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 16 October 2019 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 thr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-turkey-and-armenia-professor-varuzhan-geghamyan - 2025-04-03