Published 25 April 2019 Teaching students at Armenia's oldest and foremost university is a grateful and rewarding task. Svante Lundgren from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies speaks of experience. Svante Lundgren Yerevan State University is Armenia's oldest, largest and most prestigious university. It turns one hundred years this year and was thus founded during the short time, 1918-20, when t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-armenia-very-much-appreciated - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 April 2019 Edinburgh University are launching a free online course "The Sharia and Islamic Law: An Introduction". The course brings together a range of academic to help learners think critically about religious law and its many diverse manifestations in different times and places.  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/free-online-course-sharia-and-islamic-law-introduction - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 April 2019 The documentary film "Reformisten – den kvindelige imam" is about Sherin Khankan, Scandinavia's first female imam. In 2016, Sherin Mariam opened the Mosque in Copenhagen, one of the first mosques in Europe led by women. They struggle for a reading of the Quran marked by tolerance, equality and Islamic fem

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/filmreformisten-den-kvindelige-imam-wednesday-may-8 - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 16 April 2019 Congratulations to Nazanin Shahrokni, Assistant Professor at Syracuse Univesrsity and Guest Researcher at CMES for this academic year for the completion of her book Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran, an outline of which she presented in a CMES public lecture back in February in a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-place-politics-gender-segregation-iran - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 16 April 2019 Fanny Christou and Spyros Sofos have just had a chapter published in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, published in association with the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Their contribution in the book focuses on the “Physical and Virtual Spaces A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/physical-and-virtual-spaces-among-palestinian-diaspora-malmo - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 12 April 2019 The 14th international SIEF* congress´s theme is Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World draws upon both the ethnological explorations of human life and its continual change as well as the transforming, yet constant, Camino. Maria Frederika Malmström (Lund University/Columbia University) will pa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/navigating-ocean-suspicion-affective-politics-and-materiality-cairo - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 April 2019 Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström in conversation with Jonas Otterbeck in London. Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström is in London hosted by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (ISMC), to give a talk entitled "Urban Bodies in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/urban-bodies-cityscape-cairo-passion-despair-and-entanglement - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 April 2019 Ever since the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx in New York, Islam has been a key feature of the music. Islamologist Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University analyzes several examples of this in his thesis Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture. The hip-hop has, and still is, giving voice to weak an

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islam-resource-struggle-american-hip-hop - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 April 2019 The students had the opportunity to learn more about matters such as: History of the Persian language and some common phrases (Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi), Islam and the young people in the Middle East (Anders Ackfeldt) Is populism a European fruit? The experience of the Middle East (Spyros Sofos) Has peace a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/katedralskolans-history-class-had-full-day-lectures-about-middle-east - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 April 2019 We are pleased to announce the dates of this year's Graduate Student Conference. CMES is pleased to announce this year's Graduate Student Conference, entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is intended as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-graduate-student-conference - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 May 2020 Middle East Forum Newsletter #10 April, 2020 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University. Words from the directorThe covid-19 has turned teaching, research, and ordinary university activities upside down. Still, we do not see the end of it. But the most important lesson to be learned is to adapt to fut

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-10-april-2020 - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 March 2019 CMES welcomes affiliated researcher Orwa Ajjoub! CMES is pleased to welcome orwa [dot] ajjoub [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Orwa Ajjoub), who will be working on a report discussing the future of Islamic State. Orwa's research focuses on the theology of Salafi-Jihadi groups. He recently graduated with an MA

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/op-eds-salafi-jihadi-groups - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 March 2019 On Wednesday 20th of March, CMES staff and students came together to celebrate Nowruz. Nowruz, the Persian New Year Celebration The celebration was organised by Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi as part of CMES' Persian Language instruction, and included staff and students showing off their cooking with a pot-luck d

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-celebrates-nowruz - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 March 2019 Since its launch by Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law back in 2016, the festival has become a tradition which we have consistently supported. This year, we at CMES, support the festival with our MA in Middle Eastern Studies students playing an active role as student ambassado

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-proud-be-swedish-human-rights-film-festival-partner-organization-once-more-year - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 March 2019 CMES Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström's upcoming work, published by University of California Press. The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 22 February 2019 Anders Ackfeldt's "Spikning" (Nailing) Ceremony for the completion of his PhD thesis. Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture Congratulations to CMES Lecturer Anders Ackfeldt who on Thursday, 21st February nailed his PhD thesis "Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture" to the wall in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamic-semiotic-resources-us-hip-hop-culture - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 February 2019 Workshop held at the Department of Human Geography, 6-7th February 2019. Following the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Goal 11, making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable will be the focus of the workshop’s discussions. Swedish and Turkish scholars contrib

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-financialisation-housing-and-violation-housing-rights-global-north-and-south - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 February 2019 On the 31st January, Philip Proudfoot (anthropology, University of Bath, UK, and Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden) and Mahdi Zaidan, independent researcher and activist, Beirut, Lebanon, presented a paper in a EuroStorie research seminar organised by the Centre of Excellence in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/against-abandonment-activist-and-humanitarian-responses-lgbt-refugees-athens-and-beirut - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 May 2020 Source: Wikimedia Commons CMES Persian instructor Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi is contributing to the UPF magazine the Perspective with a piece about the fascinating relation between Persian literature and the current pandemic outbreak – and what this means for human affinity. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coronavirus-and-persian-literary-humanism - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 18 May 2020 Cover: Manchester University Press Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seek

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-07-05