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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 CMES Newslette

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-31 - 2025-10-03

CMES scholar Seyed Amir Naghibi has co-authored the paper "Optimal Landfill Site Selection for Solid Waste of Three Municipalities Based on Boolean and Fuzzy Methods: A Case Study in Kermanshah Province, Iran" together with Seyed Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Golnaz Darvishi (Shahid Beheshti University) and Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shahid Beheshti University). The article has been

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landfill-site-selection-iran - 2025-10-03

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about climate migration in Göteborgs-Posten. The article was written (in Swedish) and published in Göteborgs-Posten on 24 October 2022. Read the article in Swedish: "En miljard människor tvingas fly – på grund av klimatkrisen". Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. In a new report, the United Nations and the Re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-goteborgs-posten-about-climate-migration - 2025-10-03

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has received a sabbatical grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Rola will use the sabbatical to complete her book manuscript Performing Gender Equality: Arab State Feminism and the Sectarian Exception. In this book, she argues that most Arab governments instrumentalize women’s rights to show the West their adoption of gender-equality norms. She studies the link b

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-receives-sabbatical-grant - 2025-10-03

Swedish universities and colleges condemn the violence in Iran where security forces have fired at protesting students. Academic cooperation and exchange with Iranian universities, researchers and students can therefore be precarious according to Karin Aggestam and Ronny Berndtsson at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Karin Aggestam is Director of CMES and Coordinator of the S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-cooperation-iran-precarious - 2025-10-03

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson and CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi have co-authored the article "Detecting the Greatest Changes in Global Satellite-Based Precipitation Observations" together with Majid Kazemzadeh (Lund University), Sadegh Jamali (Lund University), Cintia Bertacchi Uvo (Lund University) and George Huffman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The article is published in the jo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/detecting-changes-global-precipitation - 2025-10-03

CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed in an article about the ongoing soccer World Cup in Qatar in the magazine Forskning & Framsteg. The article was written (in Swedish) by Maja Lundbäck and published in Forskning & Framsteg on 18 November, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. Read the article in Swedish: "Vägen till fotbolls-VM kantad av okl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-world-cup-qatar - 2025-10-03

What happened to the generation that experienced the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia as young? How are their views different from those who were only small children and do not remember the expectations of more freedom and bread? Studies in focus groups representing both Generation Z and Millennials in the region give unexpected answers but still hold some optimism for further democratisation. Sarah

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/young-tunisia-value-democracy-choose-otherwise - 2025-10-03

CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored the paper "Analysis of Landscape Composition and Configuration Based on LULC Change Modeling" together with Masoomeh Yaghoobi (Shahid Beheshti University), Alireza Vafaeinejad (Shahid Beheshti University) and Hamidreza Moradi (Tarbiat Modares University). The article has been published in the journal Sustainability. Land cover changes threaten biodiv

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landscape-composition-modeling-iran - 2025-10-03

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Using machine learning to determine acceptable levels of groundwater consumption in Iran" together with Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran), Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz), Mohammad Reza Ramezani (Griffith University), and Hamid Kardan Moghaddam (Water Research Institute I

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-footprints-iran-machine-learning - 2025-10-03

The special issue "Applying Remote Sensing, Geospatial Information Systems, and Machine Learning Algorithms to Manage Groundwater Resources" is now open for submission in Remote Sensing MDPI (Impact Factor 2021: 5.349). In this Special Issue in Remote Sensing, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: Groundwater potentia

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-special-issue-groundwater-modeling - 2025-10-03

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 Sub

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-32 - 2025-10-03

CMES doctoral student Joel Abdelmoez has been interviewed by Radio Sweden about the 12th anniversary of Mohammed Bouazizi's death in Tunisia and its aftermath in terms of the Arab Spring. The interview aired on 5 January 2023 on P4 Kristianstad. Below are some excerpts from the interview translated into English. Listen to the interview in Swedish here On 17 December 2010 Mohammed Bouazizi set fire

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-interviewed-about-arab-spring - 2025-10-03

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Forage Potential of Cereal–Legume Mixtures as an Adaptive Climate Change Strategy under Low Input Systems" together with Rajia Kchaou (Tunisian National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry), Salah Benyoussef (National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia), Sihem Jebari (Tunisian National Research Inst

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mixed-cropping-systems-and-climate-change-tunisia - 2025-10-03

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Noninvasive Monitoring of Subsurface Soil Conditions to Evaluate the Efficacy of Mole Drain in Heavy Clay Soils" together with Akram Aziz (Port Said University), Tamer Attia (Port Said University), Yasser Hamed (Port Said University) and Tarek Selim (Port Said University). The article is published in the journal Water. Soil degrada

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/subsurface-soil-drainage-egypt - 2025-10-03

Hanna Bäck, professor i statsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet presenterade vid ett KEFU-seminarium i slutet av november pågående forskning om politisk polarisering bland väljare och bland förtroendevalda i Riksdagen och i kommunerna, Politisk polarisering är ett fenomen som har fått stor uppmärksamhet på senare tid, både i media och i forskarsamhället. Amerikansk forskning har sedan länge visat att

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/politisk-polarisering-i-sverige - 2025-10-03

Högst personligt: Östra Göinge, kommunen jag verkar i, firar 50 år i år. Jag kommer precis från en invigning av en walk down memory lane – Göingestyle. En utställning där vi gjort axplock av händelser, personer, företag, föreningar som varit tongivande och viktiga för våra göingar under dessa 50 åren. Utställningen är medvetet gjord med väldigt lite fokus på kommunal förvaltning, alla brinner tydl

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/nar-det-nya-normala-ar-det-onormala-hur-leder-vi-da - 2025-10-03

Årets pris för bästa uppsats inom kommunal och regional ledning, organisation och ekonomi på totalt 20 000 kronor går till nationalekonomen Arian Mosaddegh för en uppsats som visar på lyckosamma insatser för kompetensförsörjning av undersköterskor. Priset går till uppsatsen: From Classroom to Clinic – The Impact of Employer Influenced Vocational Education on Youth Unemployment and Labor Supply of

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/vinnare-av-kefus-uppsatstavling-2024 - 2025-10-03

Kommunernas ökande utmaningar med olika typer av korruption var ämnet för ett KEFU-seminarium med Emanuel Wittberg, Linköpings universitet och Mattias Wikner, KPMG. Seminariet filmades och kan ses på YouTube. Emanuel Wittberg är postdoktor vid Institutet för Analytisk Sociologi och Centrum för kommunstrategiska studier vid Linköpings universitet där han forskar om korruption och korruptionsrisker

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/det-behovs-bade-mer-utbildning-och-kontroll-att-motverka-korruption-i-kommunerna - 2025-10-03

En prototyp till hur en kommun kortfattat och lättläst kan redovisa sin verksamhet, ekonomi och förutsättningar har tagits fram i ett KEFU-projekt som genomförts av professor Fredrik Andersson tillsammans med forskarkollegorna Anna Thomasson och Tomas Bergström. Protypen är gjord med Lund som exempel och den har tagits fram i nära samarbete med företrädare för Lunds kommun.– Det vi har velat åstad

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/prototyp-till-oversiktlig-och-lattillganglig-redovisning-av-en-kommuns-verksamhet - 2025-10-03