By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 April 2019 Ever since the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx in New York, Islam has been a key feature of the music. Islamologist Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University analyzes several examples of this in his thesis Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture. The hip-hop has, and still is, giving voice to weak an

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islam-resource-struggle-american-hip-hop - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 April 2019 The students had the opportunity to learn more about matters such as: History of the Persian language and some common phrases (Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi), Islam and the young people in the Middle East (Anders Ackfeldt) Is populism a European fruit? The experience of the Middle East (Spyros Sofos) Has peace a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/katedralskolans-history-class-had-full-day-lectures-about-middle-east - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 April 2019 We are pleased to announce the dates of this year's Graduate Student Conference. CMES is pleased to announce this year's Graduate Student Conference, entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is intended as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-graduate-student-conference - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 May 2020 Middle East Forum Newsletter #10 April, 2020 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University. Words from the directorThe covid-19 has turned teaching, research, and ordinary university activities upside down. Still, we do not see the end of it. But the most important lesson to be learned is to adapt to fut

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-10-april-2020 - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 March 2019 CMES welcomes affiliated researcher Orwa Ajjoub! CMES is pleased to welcome orwa [dot] ajjoub [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Orwa Ajjoub), who will be working on a report discussing the future of Islamic State. Orwa's research focuses on the theology of Salafi-Jihadi groups. He recently graduated with an MA

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/op-eds-salafi-jihadi-groups - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 March 2019 On Wednesday 20th of March, CMES staff and students came together to celebrate Nowruz. Nowruz, the Persian New Year Celebration The celebration was organised by Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi as part of CMES' Persian Language instruction, and included staff and students showing off their cooking with a pot-luck d

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-celebrates-nowruz - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 March 2019 Since its launch by Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law back in 2016, the festival has become a tradition which we have consistently supported. This year, we at CMES, support the festival with our MA in Middle Eastern Studies students playing an active role as student ambassado

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-proud-be-swedish-human-rights-film-festival-partner-organization-once-more-year - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 March 2019 CMES Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström's upcoming work, published by University of California Press. The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 22 February 2019 Anders Ackfeldt's "Spikning" (Nailing) Ceremony for the completion of his PhD thesis. Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture Congratulations to CMES Lecturer Anders Ackfeldt who on Thursday, 21st February nailed his PhD thesis "Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture" to the wall in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamic-semiotic-resources-us-hip-hop-culture - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 February 2019 Workshop held at the Department of Human Geography, 6-7th February 2019. Following the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Goal 11, making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable will be the focus of the workshop’s discussions. Swedish and Turkish scholars contrib

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-financialisation-housing-and-violation-housing-rights-global-north-and-south - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 February 2019 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/against-abandonment-activist-and-humanitarian-responses-lgbt-refugees-athens-and-beirut - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 May 2020 Source: Wikimedia Commons 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coronavirus-and-persian-literary-humanism - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 18 May 2020 Cover: Manchester University Press 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 seek

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 May 2020 Folkmord, flyktingar och fortlevnad. Cover: Artos & Norma Bokförlag 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 d

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-cmes-svante-lundgren-and-maria-smaberg - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 June 2020 Photo by Lina Trochez on Unsplash 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 Bud

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-publication-cmes-guest-researcher-omer-turan - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2020 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 af

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/about-power-dynamics-between-and-within-jihadi-factions-idlib-new-article-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 June 2020 Photo: Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash 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 resea

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/permanent-position-professor-islamic-studies - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 July 2020 Artist: Houmam AlSayed 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-women-and-their-participation-peace-process - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 July 2020 Source: Al Aan TV 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 de

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researcher-orwa-ajjoub-commenting-escalation-jihadi-gruops-al-aan-tv - 2025-07-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 August 2020 Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash "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, b

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/im-devastated-beirut-city-i-thought-i-hated-cmes-rola-el-husseini-conversation - 2025-07-29