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Middle East Critique, Special Issues on Syria, Guest editor: Leif Stenberg

"I want to be a graduate but politicians treat me as a problem": Middle Eastern Swedes and Black Americans in Large Urban High Schools

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Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online : Within and Beyond the Middle East

This current issue of CyberOrient brings together academics active at Scandinavian universities focusing on hip-hop from different aspects and fields. From different perspectives the authors seek to make sense of the impact, functions and dynamics of Middle Eastern and/or Islamic representations in hip-hop music online, both within and beyond the Middle East.

Transnationella utbildningsmobilitet i Asien : en tvärvetenskaplig studie av ungas strategier och utbildningsvillkor

Det muslimska arvet och relationen till Europa

Taksim - a protest like no other

Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth

Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden explores how young Kurdish immigrants living in Sweden experience and articulate their ideas about citizenship rights, belonging, and statehood as they are shuttled between different citizenship regimes and exclusive structures of belonging. Unlike immigrants who come to Sweden from countries where their groups are dominant, Kurds who immigrate to Sweden re-

Assyrier och syrianer i Sverige - En forskningsöversikt med bibliografi

The EU and the GCC: Challenges and Prospects under the Swedish EU Presidency

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A divine imperative? God's role in the empowerment of women in post-revolutionary Iran

The Sociopolitical History of Arabs in the US: Assimilation, Ethnicity and Global Citizenship

HeartMate II left ventricular assist device; early European experience

Objective: The novel axial flow left ventricular assist device HeartMate II was introduced into clinical practice in Europe as part of the pilot study and after CE approval in November 2005. In order to get an overview of the use and performance of the device in Europe a group of investigators was founded to compare the initial results. Methods: In a retrospective analysis of the first 101 consecu

What Role Do Changes in the Demographic Composition Play in the Declining Trends in Alcohol Consumption and the Increase of Non-drinkers Among Swedish Youth? A Time-series Analysis of Trends in Non-drinking and Region of Origin 1971-2012.

Non-drinkers among youth in Sweden have increased markedly during the last 15 years. The aim of this study is to investigate the temporal association between region of origin among Swedish youth and rates of non-drinking.

Gendering Al-Nakba : Elderly Palestinian Refugees' Stories and Silences about Dying Children

This article builds on the life-stories of elderly Palestinian refugees, collected in the West Bank in 2003-2004. It discusses accounts about flight in 1948 (i.e. al-Nakba) and pays particular interest to stories as well as silences about dying children. The article argues that men and women remembered their flight differently and that the gendered experiences of flight influenced understandings o

More Like Jazz Than Classical: Reciprocal Interactions Among Educational Researchers and Respondents

Back to the drawing board: rethinking multiculturalism

EU Democracy Assistance Discourse in the New Response To a Changing Neighbourhood

One Land, Two States? Parallel States as an Example of “Out of the Box” Thinking On Israel/Palestine

Swedish diplomat Mathias Mossberg, places the Israeli- Palestinian conflict in the context of a discussion of the concept of sovereignty and its erosion and outlines the basic elements of a “parallel states” structure as a possible vision for the Israeli-Palestinian future.