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Together with Ryan G. Smith (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Jingyi Chen (University of Texas), and Rosemary Knight (Stanford University), CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored the article "Apportioning deformation among depth intervals in an aquifer system using InSAR and head data", available online in the Hydrogeology Journal. Abstract Land surface subsidence due to ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/surface-deformation-aquifer-system - 2025-12-23

Together with Hamideh Kazemi (Curtin University), Fatemeh Fadia Maghsood (Tarbiat Modares University), Ranjan Sarukkalige (Curtin University) and Sadegh Jamali (Lund University), Hossein Hashemi, Seyyed Hasan Hosseini and Ronny Berndtsson from CMES have co-authored the article "Climate vs. Human Impact: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Streamflow Variation", available online in the journ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-vs-human-impact-iran - 2025-12-23

Together with Yoav Kapshuk (Kinneret College), CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ”Israeli Pre-Transitional Justice and the Nakba-Law”, recently published online (open access) in Israel Law Review. Abstract Pre-transitional justice activities that expose past injustices during entrenched conflicts can incite strong reactions among actors who feel threatened by or dislike suc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israeli-pre-transitional-justice-and-nakba-law - 2025-12-23

CMES researchers Maria Malmström and Mark Levine facilitated a workshop on sound, trauma and politics in the Middle East during the week-long experimental Listening Academy workshop in July 2021. The Listening Academy was organized as part of the Listening Biennial, an international exhibition and event program presented at Errant Sound in Berlin during the summer of 2021. The Listening Academy pr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sound-trauma-and-politics-middle-east - 2025-12-23

CMES researcher Maria Malmström has authored the article "The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear: Cairene Ex-Prisoners after the 25 January Revolution", recently published online in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. The article is part of a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology guest edited by Myriam Lamrani. To access the special issue, "Beyond Revolution: Reshapi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cairene-ex-prisoners-after-25-january-revolution - 2025-12-23

CMES researcher Joel Abdelmoez has authored the chapter "Deviants, Queers, or Scissoring Sisters of Men? Translating and Locating Queer and Trans Feminisms in the Contemporary Arabic-Speaking World” published in the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance (2021, edited by Tiina Rosenberg, Sandra d'Urso and Anna Winget). Joel's chapter deals with the increased vis

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/queer-and-trans-feminisms-contemporary-arabic-speaking-world - 2025-12-23

Together with Amy Lutz (Syracuse University), CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhday has authored the article "Perceptions of success among working-class children of immigrants in three cities", available online in the journal Ethnicities. This article examines the subjective understanding of success among members of three groups of children of immigrants from Mexico, North Africa and Turkey, in Dallas,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perceptions-success-among-working-class-children-immigrants - 2025-12-23

Together with İmren Borsuk (Berlin Forum Transregionale Studien & Stockholm University), Sinem Kavak (Lund University) and Pınar Sayan (Beykoz University), CMES researcher Pınar Dinç has edited the book "Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation". This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliber

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/authoritarian-neoliberalism-and-resistance-turkey - 2025-12-23

CMES Newsletter about 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. Click here to read the latest issue Click here to sign up for the Ne

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter - 2025-12-23

As part of the Future Week at Lund University, CMES organises a panel with five Middle East scholars who will discuss future trends in the region on topics ranging from climate change, migration, human rights, protracted conflict, democratization to peace and regional security. The public event takes place on 20 October at Skissernas Museum. All are warmly welcome! The CMES panel on trendspotting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trendspotting-middle-east - 2025-12-23

Together with Neşe Kınıkoğlu (İstanbul Medeniyet University), CMES researcher Torsten Janson has authored the article "Sacred (re)Collections: Culture, Space and Boundary Negotiation in Turkish-Islamic Memory Politics", available online in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. This article discusses how state-organized, memory-cultural production drawing on religious signifiers con

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/culture-space-and-boundary-negotiation-turkish-islamic-memory-politics - 2025-12-23

Scientists have long suspected that changes in the body’s metabolism affect the development of the incurable and fatal neurological disease ALS. Now, for the very first time, a group of researchers in Lund and Australia have identified changes in the disease in ALS patients in the brain cells that produce substances that regulate specifically metabolism and sleep. These findings provide increased

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metabolism-and-sleep-keys-mystery-als - 2025-12-23

Carl Antonson, a PhD and specialist in general medicine at Lund University receives 1 066 000 SEK from AFA Insurance to investigate why construction workers decline medical examinations of injuries caused from working with vibrating tools. Working with vibrating tools can cause nerve and vascular damage to the hands and arms. Despite this, studies show that most construction workers decline medica

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/afa-insurance-awards-grant-investigate-examination-vibration-injuries-construction-industry - 2025-12-23

Congratulations, Aleksander Giwercman, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Lund University and Senior Physician at Skåne University Hospital Malmö. You have recently been asked to take over as the new co-editor of the journal Andrology. How does it feel? — I’m really looking forward to this exciting job. It’s fun to try something new and be able to influence development in the research field of

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/aleksander-giwercman-new-co-editor-andrology - 2025-12-23

Lina Ejlertsson, a doctoral student in Public Health at Lund University, believes that there is a classic approach to working with and measuring health in workplaces through sick leave rates, productivity and efficiency. – Most often, rehabilitative measures or preventative work are only undertaken after employees become ill. So what happens if you instead integrate various recovery activities int

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/integrated-recovery-during-work-day-does-it-make-difference - 2025-12-23

In type 1 diabetes, the patient’s own immune system destroys the body’s insulin-producing cells. Researchers at Region Skåne and Lund University are leading a new drug study aimed at halting the immune system’s attack and preserving residual cells in newly diagnosed adults. The new study, dubbed IMPACT, will last a year and be It is aimed at people between the ages of 18 and 45 who were recently d

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-skane-study-slow-down-type-1-diabetes - 2025-12-23

Can a reduced intake of gluten during childhood affect the development of coeliac disease (gluten intolerance)? Researchers at Lund University will investigate this question in the new study GRAIN (Gluten Reduction After INfancy and the risk of celiac disease). – We’ve seen in previous studies that the amount of gluten you eat plays a role in the risk of getting sick. In GRAIN, we want to see if w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-can-gluten-reduced-diet-first-years-life-prevent-celiac-disease - 2025-12-23

Hello there, Pål Stenmark, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at the Department of Experimental Medical Science. You’ve just been honoured with the 2021 Lindblomska Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for you discovery of a new botox poison that wards off malaria mosquitoes! Can you really use botox against mosquitoes? – The botox used by humans doesn’t work on insects, but we’ve no

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/botox-ward-mosquitoes - 2025-12-23

Charlotte Ling, Professor of Epigenetics at Lund University, is receiving DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for a research project relating to epigenetics and type 2 diabetes. She is one of a total of 38 research group leaders who are receiving funding through the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Research Leader Programme. The project is called “Pancreatic islet dysfunction and epigenetic m

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-million-dollar-grant-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-12-23

A new app will make it easier for people on sick leave due to anxiety and depression to get back to work. In the project mWorks, Professor Ulrika Bejerholm and her research colleagues focus on what strengths, abilities and new strategies can help people on sick leave successfully transition back to working life. The research team wishes to move away from the current focus on diagnosis and disabili

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-app-help-people-return-work-following-sick-leave-due-mental-illness - 2025-12-23