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Congratulations to Fabio Cristiano for successfully defending his thesis "The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond" earlier today! Dr. Fabio Cristiano has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Political Science, The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond.   In conversation with faculty o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/fabio-cristiano-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-11-06

The new MECW project starting in the fall of 2022 is titled "Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion in Middle Eastern Nationalisms". The project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities is devoted to exploring ‘the city’ as a stage for the construction and contest of nationalist imaginations in the Middle East (and beyond). It aims at unpacking how nationalism, in vari

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-politics-memory-space-and-religion-middle-eastern-nationalisms - 2025-11-06

On Thursday June 16, Hasan Hosseini is defending his PhD thesis in Water Resources Engineering, "Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation – Local to Regional Scale Modelling". Welcome to attend! Hasan Hosseini is defending his PhD thesis in Water Resources Engineering, Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation – Local to Regional S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence-advanced-remote-sensing-precipitation-input-improved-runoff-simulation - 2025-11-06

CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has co-edited the Special Issue "Agonistic Peace: Advancing Knowledge on Institutional Dynamics and Relational Transformation" in the journal Third World Quarterly, together with Isabel Bramsen (Lund University). The special issue contains several articles focusing specifically on the MENA region. The Special Issue is comprised of empirical studies from a wide range of c

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-peace-middle-east - 2025-11-06

How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2025-11-06

Congratulations to Hasan Hosseini for successfully defending his thesis "Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation" yesterday! Dr. Hasan Hosseini has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Water Resources Engineering, Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation: Local to Regional Scale Modelling.  In conversation with faculty opponen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hasan-hosseini-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-11-06

New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. Summer greetings from CMES! The Centre will be closed from July 4 to August 14. Have a great summer and we hope to see you at our events in the fall! 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-29 - 2025-11-06

In this article published in Sydsvenskan, CMES scholars Sarah Anne Rennick and Dalia Abdelhady argue that the political mobilization of Middle Eastern migrants in European states represents a unique opportunity to revitalize our own democratic practices. Read the article in Swedish in Sydsvenskan Last decade, pinpointing political mobilization in the Middle East was a straightforward affair. At pr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-political-mobilization-opportunity-european-democracy - 2025-11-06

CMES is looking to employ an ambitious Middle Eastern scholar and political scientist. Last application day: September 15, 2022 General Information Last application date: September 15, 2022 11:59 PM CEST Type of employment: Permanent position Contract type: Full time First day of employment: By agreement Reference number: PA2022/2541 Link to the job listing in English Link to the job listing in Sw

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-position-associate-senior-lecturer-middle-eastern-studies-and-political-science - 2025-11-06

CMES researcher Lina Eklund has been interviewed by climate journalist Peter Alestig for his new book on the effects of climate change in Sweden. The book,Världen som väntar: vårt liv i klimatförändringens Sverige (English translation: The World That Awaits: Our Life in Sweden During Climate Change) addresses the changes we are seeing in Sweden in terms of climate change: less snow, more rain and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklunds-research-featured-new-book-climate-change-sweden - 2025-11-06

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the chapter "Mitigation and Adaptation Measures" together with Sahar Baghban (University of Tehran), Omid Bozorg-Haddad (University of Tehran), Mike Hobbins (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Nadhir Al-Ansari (Luleå University of Technology) in a new edited volume published by Springer. The chapter, which addresses how climate change has dire

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sustainable-water-management-mitigation-and-adaptation - 2025-11-06

CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has been interviewed about Tunisia in the BBC World Service Podcast "The Inquiry". The podcast episode (from July 28, 2022) addresses the question of why Tunisia turned its back on democracy. Tunisia was a beacon of hope for democracy after the Arab Spring. The country rid itself of dictator Ben Ali after 24 years of rule and moved to a more democratic system. Now t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennick-interviewed-about-tunisia-bbc-podcast - 2025-11-06

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions" together with S. Dehghani (University of Tehran), A.R. Massah Bavani (University of Tehran), A. Roozbahani (University of Tehran) and A. Gohari (Isfahan University of Technology), published in Sustainable Producti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/water-scarcity-modeling-iran - 2025-11-06

CMES Director Karin Aggestam and Coordinator Linda Eitrem Holmgren have authored the article "The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace" published in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding-quest-sustainable-peace - 2025-11-06

Tisdagen den 16 april hade Teaterhögskolan i Malmö besök av representanter från Rörelsernas museum (MOM), som numera också huserar på Bergsgatan, och vi fick även följa med dem och kolla in deras fina lokaler. Läs mer om Rörelsernas museum här.

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/besok-av-rorelsernas-museum - 2025-11-06

På grund av sjukdom så ställer vi in onsdagen 22/5 kl 19.00 och torsdagens 23/5 kl 14.00 föreställningar av Aulis-Troja-Argos. Biljetter återköpes av Kulturcentralen. https://www.kulturcentralen.nu/

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/installda-forestallningar-225-235 - 2025-11-06

2019 års skådespelarstudenters examensproduktion #2 - Aulis-Troja-Argos (One Final Elektra) - kommer den 27 maj kl. 19.00 dokumenteras på video och erbjuds samtidigt live-streamad på Vimeo. Materialet kommer ligga kvar i 14 dagar, till den 10 juni, om man inte har möjlighet att titta på föreställningen live.  Läs mer om föreställningen här. Biljetter till föreställningen, 60 kr, köpes via Kulturce

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/live-stream-den-27-maj-av-aulis-troja-argos-one-final-elektra-av-jorgen-dahlqvist - 2025-11-06

Teaterhögskolan i Malmö har 2019 utsett den internationellt framstående schweiziske regissören Milo Rau till ny hedersdoktor vid Konstnärliga fakulteten, Lunds Universitet. En högtidlig ceremoni ägde rum i Lunds domkyrka den 24 maj, 2019. I samband med sitt Sverigebesök fick Malmö även möjligheten att möta och höra Milo Rau under en helkväll i samtal med Björn Sandmark, VD för Göteborgs Stadsteate

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/milo-rau-promoverad-till-hedersdoktor-vid-teaterhogskolan - 2025-11-06

Skådespelaren Petra Fransson disputerade i februari 2018 vid Teaterhögskolan i Malmö med avhandlingen Omförhandlingar. Kropp, replik, etik (Lund University Publications).Den 24 maj, 2019, promoverades hon vid en högtidlig cermoni i Lunds Domkyrka och fick äntligen ikläda sig sin doktorshatt med efterföljande festligheter. Grattis Petra!

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/petra-fransson-mottog-sin-doktorshatt-vid-hogtidlig-ceremoni-i-lund - 2025-11-06

I samband med Milo Rau´s sverigebesök och promoveringen till hedersdoktor vid Konstnärliga fakulteten, Lunds universitet, deltog han i ett publikt samtal om “Framtidens Stadsteater” på INKONST i Malmö den 23 maj, 2019. Teaterkritiker Theresa Benér var på plats och nedtecknade ett referat från kvällens samtal med Milo Rau. Kvällens introduktion gjordes av Björn Sandmark, VD för Göteborgs Stadsteate

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/milo-rau-besoker-teaterhogskolan-inkonst - 2025-11-06