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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The professor is expected to contribute to the Master’s programme The Religious Roots of Europe with its associated research environment focusing on early Islam, early Christianity and early Judaism. Lund University is also the host of the interdisciplinary strategic research area The Middle East in the Contemporary W

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/permanent-position-professor-islamic-studies - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New article by CMES researcher Kholoud Mansour: This article aims at addressing the representation of the Syrian women in the media, the different barriers to their political participation and the politics of representation. The article uses contemporary empirical evidence to explore this subject, delving deeper into

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-women-and-their-participation-peace-process - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The city of Idlib, which is the last bastion of the Syria opposition, has witnessed an escalation between two jihadi groups namely: Hayet Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din and its allies. Orwa Ajjoub have provided a contextual analysis of the situation, the ideological debate it has generated between

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researcher-orwa-ajjoub-commenting-escalation-jihadi-gruops-al-aan-tv - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "The economy decimated, Lebanon was falling apart at the seams. Then came the August 4 explosion in the Beirut port, and the medical, economic and social catastrophe took on gargantuan proportions. The dead have not been counted yet, as many are still under the rubble, but over 5,000 are wounded. More than 300,000 are

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/im-devastated-beirut-city-i-thought-i-hated-cmes-rola-el-husseini-conversation - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can populism have a progressive dimension? Can we speak about left and right-wing populism? Or does it lack ideological /value content in itself? Can populism enhance democracy or is it detrimental to it? Our next debate will be asking these questions.Do get in touch if you would like to submit an article and contribu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-contributions - 2026-10-01

"On June 14, the U.S.-led international coalition targeted the car of Abu al-Qassam al-Urdini, a senior leader of al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate Hurras al-Din (HAD), and his fellow jihadi Bilal al-San’ani on the outskirts of Idlib. Two days later, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Idlib’s dominant jihadi group, arrested a former senior commander, Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, who had defected from HTS to join Ansar al-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hts-and-al-qaeda-syria-reconciling-irreconcilable-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Coronaspridningen i Jemen är bortom kontroll. Och det finns ingen officiell statistik som återspeglar den verkliga situationen, vare sig gällande antalet infekterade eller antalet dödsfall. Den 10 april i år registrerade Jemen officiellt sitt första fall i Covid 19, men vissa inofficiella källor säger att viruset hade

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/krigsharjat-jemen-hukar-under-pandemin - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are pleased to announce that CMES Michael Degerald is one of the 2020 TARII Fellows! TARII, with the feedback and support of a scholarly review committee, has selected seven Iraqi fellows and five American fellows. Michael is one of the five American fellows.Michael Degerald, Lund UniversityTransforming Iraq: a His

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/2020-tarii-fellowship-awards - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We hope you all had a warm and relaxing though probably somewhat unusual “hemester” summer holidays. The objective of this newsletter from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Strategic Research Area (SRA): the Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), is to provide an overview of Middle Eastern re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-12-august-2020 - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Lindroth was interviewed by the magazine Dagens ETC about the climate impact of forests, and about why the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is increasing. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus at the Department, was recently interviewed by Dagens ETC. In one article about about the effect of forests on the clim

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/anders-lindroth-interviewed-dagens-etc - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish forests are important carbon sinks today, despite emissions from deforestration. The choice of management is paramount for the impacts on climate change and some of the concepts used in the climate discussion today needs to be thought over and based on research. This is the essense of an article published by P

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dn-debatt-clear-cutting-forests-generate-large-greenhouse-gas-emissions - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found that the presence of death receptors in the blood can be used to directly measure the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. “We see that people with known risk factors such as high blood sugar and high blood fats also have heightened death r

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/death-receptors-new-markers-type-2-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. December 4-5, nordic researchers gathered in Malmö to discuss future challenges in precision medicine, a research field where diagnosis and treatment are based on the individual´s genetic and biological conditions. Focus is on our common and increasing diseases diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and psychiatric

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nordic-conference-malmo-about-precision-medicine-future - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A completely new classification of diabetes which also predicts the risk of serious complications and provides treatment suggestions. We are now seeing the first results of ANDIS – a study covering all newly diagnosed diabetics in southern Sweden — published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The major difference

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/paradigm-shift-diagnosis-diabetes - 2026-10-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. En ny studie vid Lunds universitet avslöjar att Sverige har fått fler fågelarter på platser där det tidigare inte funnits så många arter. Mätningarna visar på tydliga förändringar i lokal artrikedom under kort tid. Främst är det i Norrland och fjällen som artrikedomen har ökat. – Totalt sett har Sverige inte fått fl

https://www.lu.se/artikel/klimatvinnare-gor-norrland-rikare - 2026-10-02

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Genom att analysera årsringar från flertusenåriga träd som konserverats i mossar skapar geologen Johannes Edvardsson en unik tidslinje över Sveriges historiska klimat. I de begravda tidskapslarna finns även nycklar som kan hjälpa oss att bättre förstå hur våra skogar kommer att påverkas av framtida klimatförändringa

https://www.lu.se/artikel/motorsagsgeolog-studerar-historiska-klimatforandringar - 2026-10-02

Ju mer socker vi äter, desto färre vitaminer och mineraler får vi i oss, visar ny forskning från Lunds universitets Diabetescentrum. Men forskarna anser inte att deras studie ensam räcker som underlag för ändra dagens kostrekommendationer om hur mycket tillsatt socker vi bör äta. Högt intag av socker är kopplat till sjukdomar som karies, fetma, diabetes och hjärtkärlsjukdomar. I studien har forska

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ju-mer-socker-desto-farre-vitaminer - 2026-10-02

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Var fjärde kvinna som svarat på Tellusenkäten och sju procent av männen har någon gång under sin anställning vid Lunds universitet utsatts för sexuella trakasserier. Oftast har det skett i universitetets lokaler och oftast har de utsatts av en annan anställd. Bland studenterna är siffrorna något högre men de sexuell

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tellus-visar-betydande-andel-har-utsatts-sexuella-trakasserier - 2026-10-02

Forskare vid Lunds universitet har studerat sambandet mellan problematiskt spelande och överskuldsättning. Nu publiceras studien som visar att personer som spelat på nätkasino betydligt oftare skuldsatt sig för att finansiera sitt spelande, jämfört med andra spelformer. Spelproblematiken var särskilt markant för kvinnor i den aktuella studien. Studien, som publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskrifte

https://www.lu.se/artikel/spelberoende-natbaserade-hogriskspel-och-skuldsattning - 2026-10-02

De globala ekosystemens förmåga att binda koldioxid regleras i hög utsträckning av näringsämnena kväve och fosfor. Ju mer begränsade växter är av dessa ämnen desto mer koldioxid stannar i atmosfären, istället för att absorberas av skogar och andra ekosystem. En ny studie kartlägger nu de globala mönstren kring denna kväve- och fosforbegränsning. Växter behöver vatten, solljus och koldioxid för att

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-loser-gammal-klimatgata-om-ekosystemens-koldioxidupptag - 2026-10-02