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”Duktiga flickor” och andra med höga krav på sig själva brukar anses vara särskilt svåra att behandla för ätstörningar. Nu vill forskare tona ner betydelsen av perfektionistiska anlag i behandlingen av ätstörningar. Under de snart 20 år som psykologen Suzanne Petersson har arbetat med patienter med ätstörningar har sjukdomens koppling till perfektionism intresserat henne. Det förbryllade henne bla

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/inga-klara-samband-mellan-perfektionism-och-atstorningar - 2025-11-03

Kraven på vad arbetslösa måste göra för att få A-kassa har hårdnat de senaste 30 åren. Hårdare straffåtgärder införs ofta för att spara pengar men de verkar inte leda till att fler kommer i arbete. Det visar forskare på Statsvetenskapliga institutionen som studerat arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder från 1970-talet och framåt i 22 länder. Arbetslöshetsersättning har alltid varit förenat med krav på

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-om-arbetsmarknadspolitik-hellre-smaknuffar-storslaggan - 2025-11-03

Varför är vissa barn mer ömtåliga? Hur påverkas vi av att få etiketter på oss? Psykologen Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg och sociologen Jaber Gubrium forskar om sådana frågor. De är nya hedersdoktorer vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten. Den 2 juni promoveras de i Lunds domkyrka. Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg. Vissa barn klarar ganska bra att växa upp under svåra förhållande, andra gör det inte. För a

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/experter-pa-anknytning-och-identitet-promoveras - 2025-11-03

Reklam riktad till barn är tabubelagt i Sverige. Carolina Martinez vid Lunds universitet som i dagarna disputerar med en avhandling om barn och nätreklam berättar att flera reklamproducenter som hon intervjuat inte ens ville kalla det reklam utan menade att de erbjöd barnen gratis underhållning. Medie- och kommunikationsvetaren Carolina Martinez berättar att hon hade svårt att få tag på reklamprod

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/natreklam-barn-ett-tabubelagt-amne - 2025-11-03

Forskaren i psykologi, Per Davidsson, visar i sin avhandling att sömn inte alltid påverkar känslor i en mer behaglig riktning. ”Sov på saken. Imorgon känns det bättre ” är en vanligt förekommande uppmaning. Alltmer forskning visar dock att detta inte nödvändigtvis stämmer. Och en ny avhandling från Lunds universitet ger nu ytterligare belägg för detta.- Påståendet att man kommer må bättre efter at

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/sov-pa-saken-funkar-inte-alltid - 2025-11-03

Behovet av att hitta nya kreativa lösningar på olika samhällsutmaningar ökar. Socialhögskolan gör därför i samarbete med Helsingborgs stad en unik satsning och rekryterar acceleratorn SoPact, The Social Impact Accelerator program, till sin organisation. Campus Helsingborg får därmed en helt ny mötesplats för samhällsentreprenörer. – Vår ambition är att SoPact blir en testbädd för socialt förändrin

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/motesplats-samhallsforandring-till-campus-helsingborg - 2025-11-03

New article by CMES researcher Kholoud Mansour: This article aims at addressing the representation of the Syrian women in the media, the different barriers to their political participation and the politics of representation. The article uses contemporary empirical evidence to explore this subject, delving deeper into two experiences, the Women’s Advisory Board (WAB) to the UN Special Envoy and Wom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-women-and-their-participation-peace-process - 2025-11-03

The city of Idlib, which is the last bastion of the Syria opposition, has witnessed an escalation between two jihadi groups namely: Hayet Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din and its allies. Orwa Ajjoub have provided a contextual analysis of the situation, the ideological debate it has generated between jihadi-Salafi ideologues. He also touched upon the the internal strife within th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researcher-orwa-ajjoub-commenting-escalation-jihadi-gruops-al-aan-tv - 2025-11-03

"The economy decimated, Lebanon was falling apart at the seams. Then came the August 4 explosion in the Beirut port, and the medical, economic and social catastrophe took on gargantuan proportions. The dead have not been counted yet, as many are still under the rubble, but over 5,000 are wounded. More than 300,000 are said to be homeless." "The Beirut port is a key node in the Lebanese transport s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/im-devastated-beirut-city-i-thought-i-hated-cmes-rola-el-husseini-conversation - 2025-11-03

Can populism have a progressive dimension? Can we speak about left and right-wing populism? Or does it lack ideological /value content in itself? Can populism enhance democracy or is it detrimental to it? Our next debate will be asking these questions.Do get in touch if you would like to submit an article and contribute to the debate by emailing: spyros [dot] sofos [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Spyr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-contributions - 2025-11-03

"On June 14, the U.S.-led international coalition targeted the car of Abu al-Qassam al-Urdini, a senior leader of al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate Hurras al-Din (HAD), and his fellow jihadi Bilal al-San’ani on the outskirts of Idlib. Two days later, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Idlib’s dominant jihadi group, arrested a former senior commander, Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, who had defected from HTS to join Ansar al-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hts-and-al-qaeda-syria-reconciling-irreconcilable-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2025-11-03

Coronaspridningen i Jemen är bortom kontroll. Och det finns ingen officiell statistik som återspeglar den verkliga situationen, vare sig gällande antalet infekterade eller antalet dödsfall. Den 10 april i år registrerade Jemen officiellt sitt första fall i Covid 19, men vissa inofficiella källor säger att viruset hade kommit tidigare, som på många andra ställen. Trots att flygplatserna och nästan

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/krigsharjat-jemen-hukar-under-pandemin - 2025-11-03

We are pleased to announce that CMES Michael Degerald is one of the 2020 TARII Fellows! TARII, with the feedback and support of a scholarly review committee, has selected seven Iraqi fellows and five American fellows. Michael is one of the five American fellows.Michael Degerald, Lund UniversityTransforming Iraq: a History of Development and the Politics of Third Worldism from 1968-1991Read more he

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/2020-tarii-fellowship-awards - 2025-11-03

We hope you all had a warm and relaxing though probably somewhat unusual “hemester” summer holidays. The objective of this newsletter from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Strategic Research Area (SRA): the Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), is to provide an overview of Middle Eastern research undertaken at Lund University. NEW CMES LEADERSHIP FROM OCT 1, STAY TUNED:

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-12-august-2020 - 2025-11-03

By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run‐of‐the‐river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or inhibit the emergence of strong mobilizations through a comparison of four localities of the Eastern Black Sea region. The main aim of the cross comparison is to determine whether there is a relationship between the forms

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rethinking-political-economy-rural-struggles-turkey-space-structures-and-altered-agencies - 2025-11-03

Congratulations to CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis"! The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, regional and global levels.The geopolitical importance of Syria and the positions of the Syrian government on many issues, most notably the Arab-Israeli conflict and the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-0 - 2025-11-03

Graduate School together with CMES offers courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Persian, which are open to all Graduate School students. The courses are not credit bearing but you do receive a certificate at the end of each voluntary course.Courses in Modern Standard ArabicArabic is a sematic language and it is one of the six official languages of the UN. There are a total of 25 independent states

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/language-courses-arabic-and-persian - 2025-11-03

The Dawit Isaak Library is a freedom of expression library at Malmö City Archives. It will open On 16 September 2020 to the public and it is located in Malmö City Archives' existing premises.  The library contains the banned books, books that have been burned or censored - all written by people who have been silenced, threatened, imprisoned or forced into exile because of their words. Both contemp

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-mohammed-almahfali-part-new-dawit-isaak-library - 2025-11-03

The water sector in Somalia is fragmented and needs coordination to establish a functioning water governance system.  Therefore, in cooperation with UNDP and the Ministry of Energy and water resources and the Office of the Prime Minister, a national technical workshop was held in Mogadishu in March 2020.Four thematic areasAll involved stakeholders agreed on developing a water compact covering four

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-dr-khaldoon-mourad-proposes-possible-water-compact-functioning-water-governance-system-somalia - 2025-11-03

New research by CMES Raed Bashitialshaaer: "The results indicate that the professors and students faced self-imposed obstacles, as well as pedagogical, technical, and financial or organizational obstacles. Recommendations are presented to overcome and understand these obstacles to benefit in the future during unexpected or similar problems." This study aims to reveal the obstacles to achieving qua

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/exploratory-study-obstacles-achieving-quality-distance-learning-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2025-11-03