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Read the Latest CMES Newsletter (#25)

New CMES Newsletter about recent research activities and publications. 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 message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issue of the Newsletter Sign up for the Newslet

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-25 - 2025-10-01

The Oslo Accords and Agonistic Peace

Together with Isabel Bramsen (LU) and Anne Lene Stein (LU), CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has authored the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas", published in the Review of International Studies (open access). Later years have seen the growth of a vibrant theoretical discussion on agonistic peace and the importance of creating space for contestation, plurality, and disse

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/oslo-accords-and-agonistic-peace - 2025-10-01

CMES Scholar Lina Eklund Contributing Author of New IPCC Report

CMES Scholar Lina Eklund is a contributing author of the 6th IPCC assessment report released today. Today the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its 6th assessment report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. CMES researcher Dr. Lina Eklund has contributed sections on migration and mobility to the report’s fourth chapter on Water. Her assessment conclu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-scholar-lina-eklund-contributing-author-new-ipcc-report - 2025-10-01

Predicting Groundwater Levels in Iran

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A Combination of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Machine Learning Methods Improves the Prediction of Groundwater Level" together with Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Faezeh Babaian (Islamic Azad University Tehran), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran) and Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz). The arti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-levels-iran - 2025-10-01

Migrants and the Re-Scaling of Nordic Urban Space

CMES Doctoral Researcher Laleh Foroughanfar has co-authored the article "Migration, place-making and the rescaling of urban space" together with Mattias Kärrholm (LU), Tina Gudrun Jensen (Malmö University) and Rebecka Söderberg (Malmö University). The article is available in the journal European Planning Studies. The purpose of this article is to contribute to a refined perspective on how the prac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/migrants-and-re-scaling-nordic-urban-space - 2025-10-01

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Why History Matters and What Will Be the Impact?

CMES Director participates in a public panel to discuss the wider repercussions in the Middle East. The Russian invasion has ended the post-Cold War era in Europe bringing war and death, civilian casualties, and refugees to Ukraine. The panel of Lund University experts will consider: Why history matters to the invasion and conflict? What does the invasion mean for Putin’s Russia, Ukraine, and beyo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/russian-invasion-ukraine-why-history-matters-and-what-will-be-impact - 2025-10-01

Measuring Groundwater-Induced Land Subsidence in Iran

CMES scholars Seyed Amir Naghibi, Behshid Khodaei and Hossein Hashemi have authored the article "An integrated InSAR-machine learning approach for ground deformation rate modeling in arid areas", available in the Journal of Hydrology. Land subsidence is an increasing human-induced disaster that not only damages building and transportation structures but also diminishes the water storage capacity o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/measuring-groundwater-induced-land-subsidence-iran - 2025-10-01

Reassessing Activism and Engagement Among Arab Youth

CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has edited the volume "Reassessing Activism and Engagement Among Arab Youth", published by Transnational Press London (2022). This collective volume contributes to the conceptual understanding of Arab youth and their relationship to politics by making explicit how civic engagement in seemingly ‘apolitical’ fields can be conceived as a form of political activism. In

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reassessing-activism-and-engagement-among-arab-youth - 2025-10-01

Read the Latest CMES Newsletter (#26)

New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. 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 message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issues of the Newsletter Si

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-26 - 2025-10-01

The Syrian Climate-Migration-Conflict Nexus

CMES scholars Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund have co-authored an annotated bibliography about the Syrian climate-migration-conflict nexus, together with Gianna Angermayr (Lund University). The bibliography is available to read online. The scientific debate about the Syrian civil war being linked to climate change that manifested through a prolonged drought took off in 2014. This annotated bibliography

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-climate-migration-conflict-nexus - 2025-10-01

Estimating Sustainable Groundwater Use in Iran Through Machine Learning

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A hybrid approach based on simulation, optimization, and estimation of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources" together with Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz), Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran), HamedReza Zarif Sanayei (Shahre Kord University) and Zahra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/estimating-sustainable-groundwater-use-iran-through-machine-learning - 2025-10-01

Consensus and Fracture Among Iraqi Youth Activists

Sarah Anne Rennick has co-authored the paper "National Ambition, Divergent Vision: Consensus and Fracture Among Iraqi Youth Activists of the Tishreen Movement" together with Adel Bakawan. Since October 2019, Iraq has been witnessing a mass protest movement, heavily though not exclusively centered in Baghdad and the country’s southern provinces and largely led by youth. This new uprising, referred

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/consensus-and-fracture-among-iraqi-youth-activists - 2025-10-01

Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan

CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has authored "Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan", available online (open access) in The Commentaries. Environmental degradation is identified as a key factor that threatens the future of life on Earth, but such generalised reading entails that conceal the uneven effects of environmental degradation. When environmental degradation takes place on the lands of t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/environmental-racism-and-resistance-kurdistan - 2025-10-01

The Effects of Drought on Agriculture in Pre-War Syria

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has co-authored the article "Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology” together with Ole Magnus Theisen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Matthias Baumann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Andreas Forø Tollefsen (Peace Research Institute Oslo), Tobias Kuemmerle (Humboldt-Univer

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/effects-drought-agriculture-pre-war-syria - 2025-10-01

Want to learn more about hydrosolidarity and conflict resolution in the Middle East?

The Pufendorf Institute at Lund University has produced a short video about the the research theme "Hydrosolidarity 2.0: Ethics and Conflict Resolution in International Water Governance." Participating from CMES are Researcher Dalia Abdel Hady, Director Karin Aggestam and Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/want-learn-more-about-hydrosolidarity-and-conflict-resolution-middle-east - 2025-10-01

Urban Flood-Risk Assessment Through Machine-Learning in Iran

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Urban Flood-Risk Assessment: Integration of Decision-Making and Machine Learning" together with Fereshteh Taromideh (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University), Ramin Fazloula (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University), Bahram Choubin (West Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/urban-flood-risk-assessment-through-machine-learning-iran - 2025-10-01

Crop Irrigation with Heavy Metal Polluted Water in Egypt

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Can Potato Crop on Sandy Soil Be Safely Irrigated with Heavy Metal Polluted Water?" together with Tarek Selim (Port Said University), Samah M. Elkefafy (Suez Canal University), Mohamed Elkiki (Port Said University), and Ahmed A. El-kharbotly (Suez Canal University). The article is available in the journal Water. Heavy metal (HM) ac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/crop-irrigation-heavy-metal-polluted-water-egypt - 2025-10-01

Read the Latest CMES Newsletter (#27)

New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. 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 message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issues of the Newsletter Si

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-27 - 2025-10-01

Now Open: CMES Call for Writing Retreats

CMES supports writing retreats on Middle East research with the aim to finalise an article, book chapter, edited volume or a book for publication in peer-reviewed outlets. Two writing retreats will be granted during the autumn of 2022. CMES offers office space and modern research facilities in a stimulating work environment on historic premises. Administrative, practical and technical support is a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-open-cmes-call-writing-retreats - 2025-10-01

CMES Book Launch May 2: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey

CMES researcher Pınar Dinç has edited the book "Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation" together with İmren Borsuk (Berlin Forum Transregionale Studien & Stockholm University), Sinem Kavak (Lund University) and Pınar Sayan (Beykoz University). When: May 2, 12:00-13:15 Where: CMES (Finngatan 16) and on Zoom To join the book launch via Zoo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-may-2-authoritarian-neoliberalism-and-resistance-turkey - 2025-10-01