By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 May 2019 Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! Middle East Forum Newsletter #1 May, 2019 The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 May 2019 CMES, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a new platform called ip-ACIRR* are working to promote rights for people with disabilities in contexts of armed conflicts and for inclusive post-conflict society building. New cooperation initiative around people with disabilities

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cooperation-initiative-around-people-disabilities-conflict-areas - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 17 May 2019 Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syri

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-presentation-sol-sprak-och-litteraturcentrum-lund-university - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 17 May 2019 Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Medi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 May 2019 Monday the 27th of May, CMES affiliated researcher, the Syria scholar and ethnographic filmmaker Joshka Wessels will present her upcoming book which will be published by Bloomsbury/IB Tauris entitled "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/worlds-first-history-syrian-documentary-cinema - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 17 May 2019 This year's Graduate Student Conference was entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to present and discuss their own research and ideas. One of the presentations was The Hurdles of the Patriarchy – Wome

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-and-politics-lebanon-one-many-interesting-presentations-graduate-student-conference - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 May 2019 CMES researchers Helen Avery and Spyros Sofos are working to build a university-wide post-conflict research network with strong and diverse international connections. This brings together scholars and practitioners working on reconstruction of social fabrics and physical/technical infrastructure, institutio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/university-wide-post-conflict-research-network - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 May 2019 Helen Avery's work concerns sustainability transitions in the Middle East, with a particular focus on strategies for environmentally and socially sustainable society building. Research interests include organisational development, creativity and transdisciplinarity in higher education, internationalisation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-helen-avery-meeting-research-colleagues-kurdistan - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 May 2019 "The following include some of the most innovative approaches to Islamic State to date, and promise a wave of fresh voices on one of the most important challenges to global order." Daesh media production is complex, multifaceted, and is arguably a representational microcosm of the organization as a whole. C

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/where-media-meets-statecraft-daesh-promotion-governmental-competence-through-its-media-new-essay - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 May 2019 Project Mosaic launches this May with its first event, a roundtable on the theme "Trust in Democratic Societies" on Thursday, May 23 between 15:00-18:00 to be held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. In the roundtable, Prof. Dr. Nader El-Bizri (Department of Philosophy, American University in Beir

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trust-democratic-societies-roundtable-swedish-research-institute-istanbul - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 May 2019 Cherine Hussein is a guest researcher at CMES and has published a chapter in an edited book collection on Palestine. Her chapter is called "The Single State Solution: Vision, Obstacles and Dilemmas of a Re-Emergent Alternative in Flux". The book title is “From the River to the Sea- Palestine and Israel in th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/single-state-solution-vision-obstacles-and-dilemmas-re-emergent-alternative-flux - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 6 May 2019 Måste alla verkligen ta i hand i Sverige? Ska vi ha skolavslutning i kyrkan eller separata badtider i simhallar? Bör huvuddukar och heltäckande plagg för kvinnor förbjudas? Det finns fortfarande möjlighet att anmäla sig till sommarkursen som tar sin utgångspunkt i några av de senaste årens hetaste debatter o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sen-anmalan-sommarkurs-nar-gud-tar-plats-dagsaktuella-debatter-om-religion-course-swedish - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 April 2019 CMES arrangerar tre seminarier om Mellanöstern i år: 1 Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten. Vad händer nu? 2 Svenska kommuner efter IS - att arbeta med återvändare och förhindra nya resande till terrorgrupper. 3 Kultur, religion, heder och klan. Hur förstår vi Mellanöstern? Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-2019-swedish - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 April 2019 One million people in the north part of Iran are confronting serious problems with accessibility to water, due to salinization. The guest researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern studies Alireza Motevalli is now working with a study in order to map the vulnerability in the area. Alireza Motevalli Prope

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coastal-areas-are-facing-huge-risk-water-salinization - 2025-05-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 April 2019 Arab spring, the abuse of women and a visit to Carthage. The CMES´master students study trip to Tunis was full of meetings and here you can read about some of them. Mrs. Ibtihel Abdellatif, Truth and Dignity Commission On Friday morning we met Mrs Abdellatif, who set up Nissaat Tunisiet, an organisation s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/master-students-study-trip-tunis - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01