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CMES scholars gathered for a productive and insightful research retreat on writing research applications. Eighteen CMES scholars gathered at the MaryHill Estate, just outside Glumslöv, for a two-day research retreat focused on fostering collaboration and sharing valuable lessons in writing research applications.Throughout the retreat, participants discussed different types of research calls and ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-retreat-art-writing-successful-research-applications - 2025-09-29

CMES Researcher Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored an article for Journal of Hazardous Materials about drinking water quality and pollution sources near a mine in Iran. AbstractWater sources near mining regions are often susceptible to contamination from toxic elements. This study employs machine learning  techniques to evaluate drinking water quality and identify pollution sources near a chromite m

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/assessment-drinking-water-quality-and-identifying-pollution-sources-chromite-mining-region - 2025-09-29

Application deadline: 19 May 2025. We are looking for a historian holding a doctoral degree and specialising in Middle Eastern history who is at the beginning of their career. This is a 4 year fixed-term position.The successful candidate will divide their time between The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Department of History. The Department of History has three divisions:

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-associate-senior-lecturer-history-specialisation-middle-eastern-history - 2025-09-29

A recent CMES workshop aimed to explore how the Gulf States have been responding to regional crises. Last week, on March 25-26, CMES hosted an engaging workshop at The Old Bishop's House in Lund, Sweden. The theme of the event was “Regionalisation of Crisis Response: Political Shifts and Humanitarian Priorities of the Gulf States”, and it brought together 16 participants from various backgrounds t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-explores-regionalisation-crisis-response-gulf-states - 2025-09-29

Read the March CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publication

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-50 - 2025-09-29

CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has co-edited a new book about Turkey and its unresolved issues. The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and BeyondEditors: Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin HünlerThe book is now available as an open access publication and can be read here.About Pinar DincPinar Dinc has a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government at the London School of Econ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/republic-turkey-and-its-unresolved-issues-100-years-and-beyond - 2025-09-29

CMES Researcher Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored an article for PLOS One. "Enhancement of standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index predictions by machine learning based on regression and soft computing for Iran’s arid and hyper–arid region"IntroductionDrought is a climate risk that affects access to safe water, crop development, ecological stability, and food production. Therefore, deve

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/improving-drought-forecasting-irans-arid-regions-using-machine-learning-and-soft-computing - 2025-09-29

CMES Researcher Lina Eklund and the collaboration Decentralised Damage Mapping Group have been granted a prestigious award by the European Space Agency. The European Space Agency's Earth Observation Excellence Award is presented annually to early-career researchers, in recognition of outstanding contributions to scientific advancement and innovation using Earth observation data. This year, the awa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-wins-european-space-agencys-earth-observation-excellence-award - 2025-09-29

Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi (University of Oslo) visited CMES for a research seminar on Iran's mothers of "martyrs". What does mothering and grieving mean to those who mother not just on the margins but to those who are pressured, forced and/or assumed to speak and embrace the language of martyrdom in times of sorrow? On March 10, during a CMES Research Seminar, Professor Kristin Soray

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-irans-mothers-martyrs-public-dissent-times-sorrow - 2025-09-29

CMES researchers took part in a leadership program within Lund University’s Strategic Research Areas. CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Hossein Hashemi, representing The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), took part in the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Leadership Development program at Lund University during the 2024–2025 academic year.Running from August 2024 to March 2025, the program ai

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-participated-sra-leadership-development-program - 2025-09-29

Applications are now open for the CMES Travel Grant of Autumn 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES provides travel grants for conducting field work in the Middle East and conference/workshop participation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-cmes-travel-grant-autumn-2025 - 2025-09-29

A recent CMES Research Seminar with Professor Christie S. Warren offered a look into the complex journey of rebuilding Syria after years of devastating conflict. How do you rebuild a nation that has been torn apart by more than a decade of war? This was the central question when Fulbright Professor Christie S. Warren visited CMES for a research seminar titled Reconstructing Syria.In her talk, Chri

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-christie-s-warren-reconstructing-syria - 2025-09-29

CMES Director Karin Aggestam has contributed to the yearbook of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, writing about Israel, Palestine, and just peace. Karin Aggestam (2025), ”Israel, Palestina och den rättvisa freden [Israel, Palestine and Just Peace]”, Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds Box.The contribution is available to read here.Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is an independent foundation with the goal of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-and-just-peace - 2025-09-29

Malmö city, Sweden had 322,574 inhabitants in 2015. We used diagnosis registry, charts, and radiographs of the only city hospital to classify fractures in individuals < 16 years in 2014–2016, and compared these with data from 1950–2006. We used joinpoint regression to analyze time trends and present results as mean annual percentage changes (APC). Differences between periods are described as incid

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/time-trends-pediatric-fractures-swedish-city-1950-2016 - 2025-09-29

Two academic centers in Lithuania and Turkey participated in this retrospective study conducted between November 2018 and July 2019. A total of 100 consecutive patients (22 males, 78 females; mean age 78.9 years; range, 45 to 100 years) with low energy proximal femur fractures admitted for surgery were included in the study. Fracture Risk Assessment tool (FRAX) and the Sernbo scores were calculate

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/combined-fracture-and-mortality-risk-evaluation-stratifying-treatment-hip-fracture-patients - 2025-09-29

Recent improvements in life expectancy in many countries stem from reduced mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer above the age of 60. This is the combined result of decreased incidence and improved survival among those with disease. The latter has led to a higher proportion in the population of people with a past history of disease. This is a group with higher mortality than the general

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rise-number-long-term-survivors-different-diseases-can-slow-increase-life-expectancy-total - 2025-09-29

Global environmental change has degraded ecosystems. Challenges such as climate change, resource depletion (with its huge implications for human health and wellbeing), and persistent social inequalities in health have been identified as global public health issues with implications for both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. This contributes to pressure on healthcare systems, as well as so

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/advancing-global-health-through-environmental-and-public-health-tracking-0 - 2025-09-29

International patient registries are of particular importance for rare disorders, as they may contribute to overcome the lack of knowledge derived from low number of patients and limited awareness of these diseases, and help to learn more about their geographical or population-based specificities, which is relevant for research purposes and for promoting better standards of care and diagnosis. Our

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/creation-and-implementation-european-registry-patients-mcardle-disease-and-other-muscle-glycogenoses - 2025-09-29

Dominant mutations in valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene cause an adult onset inclusion body myopathy, Paget’s disease of bone, and frontotemporal dementia also termed multisystem proteinopathy (MSP). The genotype-phenotype relationships in VCP-related MSP are still being defined; in order to understand this better, we investigated the phenotypic diversity and patterns of weakness in the Cure V

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/phenotypic-diversity-international-cure-vcp-disease-registry - 2025-09-29

The COVID-19 pandemic may have severe impact on mental health, and concerns have been raised about potentially increased online behavior and possibly increased gambling problems, such as in sports bettors at risk of transfer to even riskier forms of gambling during sports lock-down. Given the need for objective data about gambling behavior during the pandemic, the present analysis, from a project

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/impact-covid-19-online-gambling-general-population-survey-during-pandemic - 2025-09-29