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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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

Anne Lene Stein (Lund University) visited CMES to share her work on an agonistic approach to ethnographic research in Palestine and Israel. On April 24, CMES hosted a seminar with Anne Lene Stein, a doctoral student in Political Science at Lund University. In her talk, Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel, she shared insights from her ethnographic fiel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-shattered-landscapes-agonistic-approach-ethnography-palestine-and-israel - 2025-12-17

CMES Researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has been granted Lund University’s GloHub seed funding for an international collaboration on Islamic Studies. The initiative brings together researchers from the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and scholars from Lund University, representing both the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) and the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).As

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/glohub-seed-funding-sami-al-daghistani-islamic-studies-collaboration - 2025-12-17

Applications are now open for the CMES Workshop Proposal of 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshops per year and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-workshop-proposal - 2025-12-17

Read the April 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-51 - 2025-12-17

Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing transnat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2025-12-17

CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc recently visited Yerevan, Armenia, for the launch of a new book and to engage in academic discussions. On 23 April, CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc participated in a panel discussion at Yerevan State University (YSU) for the launch of a new open access edited book by Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin Hunler (Acıbadem University), The Republic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-join-academic-exchanges-during-yerevan-visit - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

Survival data for pancreatic cancer are usually based on actuarial calculations and actual long-term survival rates are rarely reported. Here we use population-level data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program for patients with microscopically confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma diagnosed from 1975 to 2011. A total of 84,275 patients with at least 5 years of follow-up

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/actual-5-year-survivors-pancreatic-ductal-adenocarcinoma-based-real-world-data - 2025-12-17

The aim of this study was to investigate the appearance of a disturbed oropharyngeal microbiota during hospitalization and explore the patient characteristics that maybe associated with such a disturbance. Oropharyngeal swabs were collected from 134 patients at hospital admission and every 3–4 days thereafter. The samples were cultivated to determine the presence of a disturbed microbiota, which,

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/disturbance-oropharyngeal-microbiota-relation-antibiotic-and-proton-pump-inhibitor-medication-and - 2025-12-17