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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 Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki. Titled "Against abando
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, while announcing the extension of quarantine in Spain, spoke to people and recited verses of Sa’di (d.1291) the 13th
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coronavirus-and-persian-literary-humanism - 2025-09-29
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 seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling at over 1.3 mill
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-09-29
I början av 1900-talet åkte hundratals skandinaviska kvinnor ut i världen för att som missionärer sprida det kristna budskapet samt verka inom sjukvård och undervisning. Ofta handlade det om en livslång gärning under svåra förhållanden. I den här boken möter vi tre sådana kvinnor som dessutom kom att hamna mitt i storpolitikens stormar. Alma Johansson från Sverige, Bodil Biørn från Norge och Maria
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-cmes-svante-lundgren-and-maria-smaberg - 2025-09-29
In the seventh anniversary of the Gezi Park protests, Dr. Ömer Turan, Swedish Institute fellow at CMES, has published a chapter, in the volume edited by Maria do Mar Castro Verela, and Baris Ülker (Doing Tolerance, Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation, Barbara Budrich, 2020). Taksim Square’s historical backgroundThe chapter is comprised of three sections. It starts with Taksim Square’s h
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-publication-cmes-guest-researcher-omer-turan - 2025-09-29
On the 18th April, the town of Armanaz in the north-western countryside of the city of Idlib witnessed an escalation between Hayet Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the hegemonic jihadi group in Idlib province, and Hurras al-Din (HAD), the group believed to be Al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria. Reportedly, tensions escalated after HTS members attempted to expel HAD personnel from their bases in Armanaz. The dispute wa
The professor is expected to contribute to the Master’s programme The Religious Roots of Europe with its associated research environment focusing on early Islam, early Christianity and early Judaism. Lund University is also the host of the interdisciplinary strategic research area The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), based here at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the Fa
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/permanent-position-professor-islamic-studies - 2025-09-29
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 - 2025-09-29
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 - 2025-09-29
"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 - 2025-09-29
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 - 2025-09-29
"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 - 2025-09-29
On behalf of the Swedish Government, SciLifeLab develops and provides advanced technologies, instruments and expertise to researchers in academia, industry and healthcare throughout Sweden. Johan Malmström has served as Scientific Director of Integrated Structural Biology (ISB), one of the platforms within SciLifeLabs, since 1 June of this year. What is the platform’s mission? “In collaboration wi
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/johan-malmstrom-scientific-director-scilifelab-platform-isb - 2025-09-29
Since 1 June of this year, Thoas Fioretos, Professor of Clinical Genetics at Lund University and Senior Physician in Clinical Genetics and Pathology, Region Skåne, is leading the work of the national research infrastructure Clinical Genomics within SciLifeLab. SciLifeLab is a national infrastructure within the field of life science and offers cutting-edge technologies and expertise to the Swedish
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-lead-work-scilifelabs-clinical-genomics-platform - 2025-09-29
Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. This is one of Scandinavia’s largest research prizes in medicine and Christer Betsholtz is being recognised for his research into vascular structure and function. The motivation for the award states that “His research has been of essen
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/prize-worth-millions-awarded-leading-blood-vessel-researcher - 2025-09-29
Three researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) receive generous grants from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation in 2021. Ola Hansson, Karl Bacos and Malin Fex have been awarded 45 000 euros each for their research projects. A common aim is to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms behind type 2 diabetes. Diabetes has become a major health issue with nearly half a billion people li
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundation-grants-mechanistic-studies-type-2-diabetes - 2025-09-29
In healthcare, treatments developed for broad patient groups are often used. This is not always an effective approach. Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova has therefore distributed research grants to eleven Swedish innovation environments whose research aims to develop more individually adapted healthcare for patients. The stem cell researchers at the IndiCell innovation environment have been award
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sek-40-million-innovation-environment-customised-stem-cell-treatments - 2025-09-29
Hello there, Björn Ekman and Jesper Sundewall! You’re both researchers in social medicine and global health at Lund University, and now you’ve been granted SEK 600,000 from the Expert Group for Aid Studies to study the effects of global health development aid. What are you going to do within the context of your research project? – We will analyse global development assistance in the area of sexual
The Lund University research portal has been upgraded. Welcome to explore old and new features. Lund University research portal gathers information and publications. In the portal you will find both thousands of individual researchers and a large number of research projects. Thanks to the use of a database (LUCRIS) there is excellent search possibilities and connections of related content. On 19 O
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/visit-our-research-portal-new-features-and-design - 2025-09-29
We are now looking for part-time (20%) research and teaching staff, with different profiles, from different disciplines and with various experience. Who are you? You currently have a job at Lund University or Region Skåne and have a genuine interest in the subject area of medical humanities. You are willing to work with the start-up of a knowledge centre, where transdisciplinary collaboration is c
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/birgit-rausing-centre-medical-humanities-looking-staff - 2025-09-29
