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In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the genetic scissors CRISPR-Cas9, that facilitates antibody development. The discovery is published in Nature Communications. Antibody drugs are the fastest growing class of drug, and several therapeu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-method-developing-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-11-24

The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the upper or lower airways using human airway cells”, says Sinem Tas, associate researcher. The most r

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on democracy in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-party states, monarchies and sheikdoms, with a few democratic states. What are the necessary

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-democracy-middle-east - 2025-11-24

On Friday September 2, Laleh Foroughanfar is defending her PhD thesis in Architecture and Built Environment, "The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö". Welcome to attend! Laleh Foroughanfar will be defending her PhD thesis The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö. 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence-street-associations-migration-and-infrastructural-reproduction-norra - 2025-11-24

CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady has co-authored the article "How capital shapes refugees’ access to the labour market: the case of Syrians in Sweden" together with Akram Al Ariss (TBS Education), published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management. This paper highlights the ways Syrian refugees in Sweden utilise the different forms of capital available to them in order to find jobs

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-refugees-swedish-labour-market - 2025-11-24

The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on gender-just peace in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Gender-Just Peace in the Middle East - Is It Possible? (Jämställd fred i Mellanöstern – är det möjligt?) July 6, 2022, 13:45-14:45, Hästgatan 13 in Visby How is the UN's Women, Peace and Security agenda implemented in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)? What is needed fo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-gender-just-peace-middle-east - 2025-11-24

The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in by the end of this century. High temperatures in combination with humid air may cause extreme heat known as wet bulb temperature, or

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2025-11-24

Congratulations to Laleh Foroughanfar for successfully defending her thesis "The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö"! Dr. Laleh Foroughanfar has successfully defended her PhD thesis The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö. The thesis addresses issues related to t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/laleh-foroughanfar-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-11-24

The World is Burning is a photo exhibition about the causes and effects of wildfires in the anthropocene. It opens on Sept. 17 at 12:30 and runs until October 10 in the garden of the Pufendorf Institute. All are welcome! Over the last years, wildfires have become more frequent and now constitute a global threat to life on earth. The risk of wildfire is affected by climate change and weather factor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-wildfire-photo-exhibition-world-burning - 2025-11-24

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about the recent floods in Pakistan in Dagens Nyheter. The article was written (in Swedish) by Alexandra Urisman Otto and published on August 30, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. More than 30 million people have been affected as large parts of Pakistan are under water, many of them being forced to le

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-about-climate-migration-pakistan-dagens-nyheter - 2025-11-24

CMES scholar Helen Avery organized a well-attended and successful two-day workshop on community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation. The workshop, "Community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation of agriculture and water management in remote rural areas – short- and long-term strategies to support resilience, agility and food security", was held at the Columbia Global Cen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemeni-capacity-building-workshop-climate-adaptation - 2025-11-24

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction" together with Vahid Moosavi (Tarbiat Modares University), Ayoob Karami (Pooyeshgaran Forogh Fardad Consulting Eng., Science and Technology Park), Negin Behnia (Yazd University) and Christian Massari (Research Institute for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-and-predicting-streamflow-iran - 2025-11-24

Welcome to Pufendorf & Friends – A dialogue forum and After Work series at the Pufendorf IAS at Lund University. The event is co-hosted with The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the strategic research area (SRA) “The Middle East in the Contemporary World”. After work panel discussion on climate change in the Middle East With CMES researchers: Dalia Abdelhady,  Lina Eklund and 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/after-work-panel-discussion-climate-change-middle-east - 2025-11-24

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 issue of the Newsletter Sig

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-30 - 2025-11-24

CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has authored the article "Good Tidings for Saudi Women? Techno-Orientalism, Gender, and Saudi Politics in Global Media Discourse", published in CyberOrient. Gender equality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still a contentious and hotly debated issue, both within the country and in global news media as well as social media. Not least has the government app “Abshe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/techno-orientalism-gender-and-saudi-politics - 2025-11-24

CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has reviewed the book "Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa" edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno. The book review is published in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. In the review, Joel writes: "While many works have taken an anthropological or ethnographical approach (cf. Ghannam, 2013; Naguib, 2015;  Malmström, 2021),

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/masculinity-middle-east-and-north-africa - 2025-11-24

Welcome to a book launch of the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas with editors Dalia Abdelhady (CMES, Lund University) and Ramy Aly (American University in Cairo) and contributing authors Öncel Naldemirci (Umeå University), Ángela Suárez Collado (University of Salamanca) and Pinar Dinc (CMES, Lund University). Event Information Where: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16, Lund) and on Zoom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-routledge-handbook-middle-eastern-diasporas - 2025-11-24