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CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Can Potato Crop on Sandy Soil Be Safely Irrigated with Heavy Metal Polluted Water?" together with Tarek Selim (Port Said University), Samah M. Elkefafy (Suez Canal University), Mohamed Elkiki (Port Said University), and Ahmed A. El-kharbotly (Suez Canal University). The article is available in the journal Water. Heavy metal (HM) ac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/crop-irrigation-heavy-metal-polluted-water-egypt - 2025-12-20

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 issues of the Newsletter Si

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-27 - 2025-12-20

CMES supports writing retreats on Middle East research with the aim to finalise an article, book chapter, edited volume or a book for publication in peer-reviewed outlets. Two writing retreats will be granted during the autumn of 2022. CMES offers office space and modern research facilities in a stimulating work environment on historic premises. Administrative, practical and technical support is a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-open-cmes-call-writing-retreats - 2025-12-20

CMES researcher Pınar Dinç has edited the book "Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation" together with İmren Borsuk (Berlin Forum Transregionale Studien & Stockholm University), Sinem Kavak (Lund University) and Pınar Sayan (Beykoz University). When: May 2, 12:00-13:15 Where: CMES (Finngatan 16) and on Zoom To join the book launch via Zoo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-may-2-authoritarian-neoliberalism-and-resistance-turkey - 2025-12-20

On May 18, CMES scholars will be showcasing their ongoing Middle East research with posters on display at Finngatan 16. Come mingle, learn something new and enjoy some drinks, snacks and sweets! 18 May 2022 13:00 to 16:00 CMES scholars presenting their research: Ali Mansourian (Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) – AI and Sustainable Dust-Storm Control in the Middle East Behshid Khodaei (Wat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/welcome-cmes-open-house-may-18 - 2025-12-20

We are happy to announce the launch of the CMES YouTube channel with brand new content on the latest in Middle East research! Want to learn more about what is happening in the Middle East in terms of climate change, authoritarian regimes or migration? Or perhaps you are interested in democratic reform, the war on terror or hydrosolidarity and peacebuilding in the MENA region? Then the CMES YouTube

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/launch-new-cmes-youtube-channel - 2025-12-20

CMES welcomes applications for travel grants and research initiation from employees at Lund University. Application deadline: May 30, 2022 Travel Grants CMES provides travel grants for conducting field work in the Middle East and conference/workshop participation with paper presentations focused on Middle East research. Applications are open to employees at Lund University.  Grant period: autumn 2

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-open-cmes-calls-travel-grants-and-research-initiation - 2025-12-20

CMES will host two events on democracy and gender-just peace in the MENA region (in Swedish) on July 6 during the Almedalen week in Visby. All welcome! Please note that the events will be held in Swedish! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-par

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen - 2025-12-20

Welcome to a CMES Roundtable about current research on transnational Twelver Shiism with LU researchers Oula Kadhum, Fouad Marei, Stefan Williamson Fa, Nada Al-Hudaid and Yafa Shanneik! May 19, 15:00-16:30, at CMES (Finngatan 16) The Middle East has witnessed radical changes in the last 20 years with regimes being removed by foreign intervention (Iraq in 2003) or by the popular uprisings during th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-roundtable-may-19-resistance-diaspora-and-sensory-material-culture - 2025-12-20

CMES scholar Dalia Abdelhady has co-authored the article "Human Interest Stories in the Coverage of Syrian Refugees: A Case Study from Turkey" together with Fatmanur Delioglu (Yildiz Technical University), published in Mashriq & Mahjar - the Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. This paper investigates the forms of representation of Syrian refugees in Zaman newspaper, a Turki

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-refugees-turkey - 2025-12-20

How can youth movements influence and promote democratisation and social justice in the Middle East? Can researchers support and contribute to democratic reform? These are questions that political scientist Sarah Anne Rennick is working on as a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. Sarah Anne Rennick is a familiar face among political scientists in Lund. She received her do

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennicks-research-profiled-lund-university-magazine - 2025-12-20

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has been interviewed for an article about the Lebanese election in Göteborgs-Posten. Lebanon’s fraudulent elite predicted to remain in power For the first time since 2018, at a time when one crisis was followed by another in Lebanon, the country holds a general election. Although a majority of the population has been thrown into poverty, of which the current lead

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-interviewed-about-lebanese-election-goteborgs-posten - 2025-12-20

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 issues of the Newsletter Si

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-28 - 2025-12-20

With the aid of satellite images, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have uncovered unique data on the severe drought that hit Syria between 2007 and 2009. Previously, many politicians and researchers believed that it was decisive for the outbreak of war in 2011. However, the new results indicate that agricultural land had already recovered by 2010. When the war in Syria broke out in 2011, t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/role-drought-syrian-war-was-exaggerated - 2025-12-20

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Groundwater Extraction Reduction within an Irrigation District by Enhancing the Surface Water Distribution" together with Hamed Tork (University of Tehran), Saman Javadi (University of Tehran), Seyed Mehdy Hashemy Shahdany (University of Tehran) and Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran). The article is published in the journa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/developing-surface-water-distribution-systems-iran - 2025-12-20

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has been interviewed in an article about the Lebanese election in Dagens Nyheter. CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean was recently interviewed in an article about the Lebanese general election published in Dagens Nyheter. The article was written (in Swedish) by Hanna Rydén and published on May 15, 2022. Below, you will find some excerpts from the article translate

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-interviewed-about-lebanese-election-dagens-nyheter - 2025-12-20

In the wake of climate change and an increasingly warmer and drier climate, wildfires are becoming more common. In Ukraine, the war further increases the risk. Already in March this year, fires broke out around Chernobyl. CMES researcher Lina Eklund fears that a dry summer could lead to further fires with catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences. Physical geographer Lina Eklund, wh

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-warn-increased-fire-risk-war-torn-ukraine - 2025-12-20

On Thursday June 2, Fabio Cristiano is defending his PhD thesis in Political Science "The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond". Welcome to attend! Fabio Cristiano is defending his PhD thesis in Political Science, The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond. Faculty opponent is professor An

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence-blurring-politics-cyber-conflict-palestine-and-beyond - 2025-12-20

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Evaluation of modified Hilhorst models for pore electrical conductivity estimation using a low-cost dielectric sensor" together with Nessrine Zemni (University of Tunis El Manar), Fethi Bouksila (National Institute for Research in Rural Engineering, Water, and Forestry Tunisia), Fairouz Slama (University of Tunis El Manar), Magnus

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/estimating-pore-electrical-conductivity-tunisian-soil - 2025-12-20

Congratulations to Fabio Cristiano for successfully defending his thesis "The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond" earlier today! Dr. Fabio Cristiano has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Political Science, The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond.   In conversation with faculty o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/fabio-cristiano-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-12-20