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Palestinier i ockuperade områden upplever stor uppgivenhet och desperationen. Socialantropologen Nina Grens forskning i området och kontakt med invånarna under 20 år har genomgående visat på frustration och känslor av hopplöshet. I artikeln Palestinian conflict: how despair can drive people to violence, even if it puts their lives in danger i The Conversation beskriver Nina Gren hur desperationen

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/inget-mer-att-forlora-hopploshet-kan-oka-valdet-i-palestina - 2025-11-05

Inte mindre än fyra projekt har beviljats bidrag från Vetenskapsrådet (VR) den sista tiden. Bakom projekten står forskarna Jan Mewes, Christopher Swader, Lisa Flower, Shai Mulinari, Sébastien Tutenges, Susanne Boethius och David Wästerfors. Följande projekt får VR-medel, med länk till svenska forskningsdatabasen Swecris:Generell tillit, tillitsradien och självskapad hälsa: en internationell jämför

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/flera-projekt-far-bidrag-fran-vetenskapsradet - 2025-11-05

Tisdagen den 19 december försvarade Marie Larsson framgångsrikt sin avhandling “The Work of Contracepting : Young people's experiences and practices with contraceptives in Sweden” och kan ny titulera sig doktor i sociologi. Marie Larssons avhandling belyser det arbete som ligger till grund för ungas erfarenheter och praktiker kring preventivmetoder. Intervjuer med unga i åldern 18 till 29 år visar

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/marie-larsson-har-forsvarat-sin-avhandling-om-preventivmedelsarbete-och-ar-nybliven-doktor-i - 2025-11-05

Lila Lee-Morrison, forskare vid Sociologiska institutionen, tilldelades nyligen det prestigefyllda Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2023 i kategorin böcker. Stipendiet stödjer skrivande om samtida konst med målet att kritiskt skrivande ska fortsätta att vara ett uppskattat sätt att engagera sig i bildkonsten. Stipendiet delas ut i tre kategorier – artiklar, böcker och kortare texter. Lila

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/lila-lee-morrison-far-det-prestigefyllda-andy-warhol-foundation-arts-writers-grant - 2025-11-05

Vid Lunds universitets storslagna årshögtid delades Studenternas pris för utmärkta lärarinssatser inom undervisningen ut till Oriana Quaglietta Bernal, Sociologiska institutionen. Oriana Quaglietta Bernal disputerade förra året och blev förvånad över att hon redan gjort ett sådant intryck att hon får priset. Under prisceremonin som hölls på universitetets årshögtid den 26 januari fick hon sällskap

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/fint-lararpris-till-oriana-quaglietta-bernal - 2025-11-05

För första gången har en kartläggning av kollektivavtalens täckningsgrad gjorts som visar andelen anställda och företag som omfattas i olika branscher och företagsstorlekar. Anders Kjellberg, professor vid Sociologiska institutionen, har skrivit rapporten Kollektivavtalens täckningsgrad och vita fläckar som också ger förslag på hur situationen kan förbättras. Särskilt låg andel anställda med kolle

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/kartlaggning-visar-lag-tackning-av-kollektivavtal-i-flera-branscher - 2025-11-05

Att bestämma över sin kropp och sitt liv är en stor del av att vara människa i Sverige idag. En del av det är att ta hand om sin sexuella hälsa och att välja om och när man skaffar barn. I heterosexuella förhållanden är det ett arbete som ofta hamnar på den som kan bli gravid. Idealet enligt ny forskning är ett annat och handlar om en jämlik fördelning av preventivmedelsanvändningen och arbetet ru

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/att-dela-det-odelbara-starkt-jamlikhetsideal-i-ungas-preventivmedelsarbete - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

"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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

"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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05

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 - 2025-11-05