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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 - 2026-08-11

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 - 2026-08-11

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 - 2026-08-11

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 - 2026-08-11

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 - 2026-08-11

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 - 2026-08-11

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 - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jan Teorell is one of the authors of two articles from a special issue of Comparative Political Studies. He has together with Daniel Ziblatt and Fabrice Lehoucq co-authored the article ”An Introduction to Special Issue: The Causes and Consequences of Secret Ballot Reform”.He has also together with Didi Kuo co-authored

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-secret-ballot - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam gives a talk on feminist foreign policy and peace diplomacy on the international conference at Oslo University on 9 June. Learn more on Oslo University’s websiteKarin Aggestam’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-feminist-foreign-policy-and-peace-diplomacy - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today on June 9th Ole Elgström is in Helsinki to act as opponent on Hanna Tuominen's PhD thesis "The European Union at the UN Human Rights Council", in which she investigates the normative power role of the EU in this context. Ole Elgström’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-opponent-phd-thesis - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard is one of the organizers of a workshop concerning fossil fuel subsidies at Stockholm Environment Institute. The workshop starts today (16 June) and ends tomorrow. Learn more on Stockholm Environment Institute’s websiteJakob Skovgaard’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/workshop-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam has been appointed the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations Chair in Commemoration of Samuel Pufendorf. Karin Aggestam’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-appointed-pufendorf-chair - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annica Kronsell and Annika Bergman Rosamond participated in the launching workshop of the Feminist Peace Research Network at the University of Tampere, Finland (27-30 June). The next workshop will take place in Lund in 2017. You can read more about the network on their websiteAnnica Kronsell’s personal pageAnnika Berg

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feminist-peace-research-network - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ole Elgström's article "Norm Advocacy Networks: Nordic and Like-Minded Countries in EU Gender and Development Policy" has been accepted and published electronically by Cooperation and Conflict. The article analyses how informal Member State groupings act to promote their values to fellow Member States. Abstract:This a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-how-state-groupings-act-promote-their-values - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored ”The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria” in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford University Press), edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne. Learn more on Oxford University Press’s webbsiteKarin Aggestam’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agggestam-and-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa Strömbom’s article “Counter-conduct in divided cities – resisting urban planning practices in Jerusalem” has been published in Peacebuilding. Abstract:This article explores practices of counter-conduct in Jerusalem. Its aims are threefold: (1) to deepen understandings of how practices of counter-conduct relates t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-counter-conduct-jerusalem - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Cecilia von Schéele defended her dissertation "The void: Urban wasteland as political space" today at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate Professor Nils Hertting, Uppsala University.The void: Urban wasteland as political spaceCecilia von Schéele’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-von-scheele-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fabio Cristiano presented his work on augmented reality and Pokémon Go at the University of York’s event “Imagining Jerusalem”, in East Jerusalem on September 1. Programme for “Imagining Jerusalem” (PDF)Fabio Cristiano’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cristiano-augmented-reality-and-pokemon-go - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roxanna Sjöstedt, Erik Noreen and Jan Ångström have co-authored the article "Why small states join big wars: The case of Sweden in Afghanistan 2002–2014" in International Relations. Abstract:The security behavior of small states has traditionally been explained by different takes of realism, liberalism, or constructiv

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-why-small-states-join-big-wars - 2026-08-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter on ”Diplomatic Mediation” in The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy. Learn more on sagepub.comKarin Aggestam's personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-diplomatic-mediation - 2026-08-11