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Maria Frederika Malmström defended her thesis in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, in 2009. Now she is back to talk about her new book. Since then she has continued her thought-provoking research and teaching on Egypt and the broader MENA region – working as a lecturer and visiting scholar at Högskolan Väst, Nordic Africa Institute, New York University

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-launch-afterwork-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2025-10-27

Offensive jokes is a part of racism towards muslims. How is this regarded in Swedish courts? "This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden—a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults—Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on iss

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice - 2025-10-27

Today Ramy Aly, Assistant Professor of Anthropology from American University in Cairo, visited CMES. He gave a talk about culture as a political tool, and censorship in Egypt today and historically. "The study of regulatory censorship is today seen as resounding dull and anachronistic. This is in part because of the way in which assumptions that censorship is the affliction of non-democratic and d

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/culture-police-manning-barricades-allowable-art-and-culture-egypt - 2025-10-27

The semester is quickly coming to an end. We are all very busy with budgets, exams, planning next semester courses, etc. At the same time, the new project application period is soon coming up with issues on partner finding, work packages, and salaries. Partnerships, collaborations, and societal impact are becoming increasingly important for successful research applications (Message from the direct

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-5-november-2019 - 2025-10-27

On 25-26 October 2019, a group of academics, representatives of NGOs and international organisations, social advocates and politicians met at Antwork Beirut to discuss some of the major challenges for Syria in the coming years. The workshop was funded by the Swedish research council for sustainable development, Formas, and was organised by Helen Avery (CMES) and Chavia Ali (ip-ACIRR).CMES Masters

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/strategies-socially-and-environmentally-sustainable-futures-urgent-challenges-and-emerging - 2025-10-27

CMES Rola El-Husseini participated last week in the annual MESA meeting in New Orleans where she had co-organised a panel titled "Breaking Boundaries or Entrenching Old Ones? Post-Arab Spring Experiences of Women and Political Representation". She also presented a paper titled "Theorising State Feminism in the Arab World after the 2011 Uprisings." "From women’s key role in the Arab Spring and othe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/breaking-boundaries-or-entrenching-old-ones-post-arab-spring-experiences-women-and-political - 2025-10-27

December 16, at 16 00-18 00 the author Maria F Malmström has invited four guests: Jessica Winegar, Nina Gren, Jonas Frykman, Anja Franck to talk about her book. Place: CMES Finngatan 16. "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these even

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt-book-talk - 2025-10-27

New article by CMES water researchers in the journal "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters": Lake Urmia (LU) in northwestern Iran has largely shrunk over the last two decades. The emerged bare, salty soil could turn into a threatening new dust source for the densely populated region around it. Hossein Hashemi is one of the researchers from CMES/LTH: - To quantify LU as a dust source, we exam

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dust-lake-urmia-threatening-densely-populated-region-iran - 2025-10-27

Islamism är ett brett fenomen med många uttrycksformer som måste förstås utifrån sin geografiska och historiska kontext. Det var huvudtesen när islamologen Torsten Janson, universitetslektor vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier på Lunds universitet, nyligen höll föredrag i Hässleholms stadsbibliotek. Jansons exempel innefattar superhjältar i islamiska seriealbum såväl som Muslimska brödraskapets fö

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamolog-ger-svar-om-islamism-och-ibn-rushd-cmes-torsten-janson-hassleholm-newspaper - 2025-10-27

Försvinnanden och interneringar bland återvändande flyktingar i Syrien, främlingsfientlighet i grannländer och krigets fortgång skapar en omöjlig situation för flyktingarna. Läs Kholoud Mansours artikel om svårigheten att återvända till Syrien. Trycket på syriska flyktingar att återvända ökar. Främlingsfientlig retorik och ekonomisk stress gör deras tillvaro i grannländerna allt svårare. Men från

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/pest-eller-kolera-syrier-kan-inte-atervanda-hem-swedish-cmes-kholoud-mansour - 2025-10-27

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global politics, with a focus on the Middle East, North Africa and citizens in the Diaspora.          How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? NEW TIME AND PLACE:December, 17, 2019: Jessica WinegarJessica Winegar is a sociocultural anthropolog

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-time-and-place-passion-and-global-politics-conversation-series-jessica-winegar - 2025-10-27

Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University Date: 11 November 2019, 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM Research seminar with Maria Malmström, Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern, Lund University and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York City. Participants: Maria Malmström, Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern, Lund

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-discussion-maria-malmstrom-streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-10-27

The magazine will be distributed to the faculties, FSI (Sektion Forskning, Samverkan och Innovation), External relations, LU's management, Bishop's House, Lund municipality via meetings, conferences etc. WIDELY SPREAD AROUND THE WORLDIt will also be sent to Lärosäten Syd's office in Brussels as well as to embassies around the world.FSI will also send it to the other universities management around

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/printed-version-magazine-mission-possible - 2025-10-27

For the third year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to a maximum of SEK 35 000. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university-0 - 2025-10-27

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo published an article in the Conversation on Afghan asylum seekers. When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West [...]. Read more. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-afghan-asylum-seekers - 2025-10-27

On Thursday 23 February 2017 SASNET met up with this year's participants of the Swedish Institute's Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) Programme at Media Evolution City in Malmö, Sweden. What is the relation between responsible leadership, social change and creativity? How can society tackle the growing trend of populism, polarization and hate speeches while still keeping a pluralistic society b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-met-ycf-2016-group-malmo - 2025-10-27

On 14 March 2017, 16.15-18.00 The Network for Asian Studies' (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo will hold its Annual Lecture 2017: "Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1969". Venue: Morgenstiernes hus, Arne Næss auditorium, Blindern, Oslo. This year, Andrew G. Walder from Stanford University offers new insights into the Cultural Revolution in China. In the first four years after the onset

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-annual-lecture - 2025-10-27

On 23 June 2017 the Conference "Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses" will be held at the University of Sheffield, Uk. Abstract deadline is 23 April. This conference aims to look at the material histories and lives of subaltern women. In her 1988 essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak extends the definition of the ‘subaltern’, going beyond “strict

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sheffield-conference-subaltern-womens-narratives - 2025-10-27

The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-10-27

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-10-27