This is a newsletter from Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University
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Middle East Forum Newsletter #21May, 2021 | | | | | |
Message from the director
Summer greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies Finally, warm sunny weather has arrived and slowly but surely Sweden is opening up again since the vaccination program is now in full swing. At CMES, we are able to enjoy outdoor “Corona-safe” meetings in the beautiful garden and we feel confident of moving towards brighter times. CMES is in the midst of planning a broad range of exciting research activities for the next semester. If conditions and Lund University regulations allow CMES will organise an “Open House” where you are warmly welcome to meet and mingle with CMES scholars at Finngatan 16. A new exciting CMES seminar program will be posted on the website and CMES will also participate in Lund University “Future Week” with five distinguished panelists conducting “future trend spotting in the Middle East”. CMES continues to expand Middle East research at Lund University. With the start of the autumn semester, we are very much looking forward to welcoming our new PhD students and researchers who will launch new cutting-edge research projects. We are also happy to announce that Torsten Jansson, Svante Lundgren and Lisa Strömbom will be joining CMES for autumn writing retreats. So many research activities in the making, stay tuned on CMES website and by subscribing to the Newsletter! Wishing you all a wonderful relaxing summer!
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Karin AggestamCMES director and MECW coordinator | New Pufendorf research Theme: Hydrosolidarity 2.0The research project Hydrosolidarity 2.0 has been granted a Theme at the Pufendorf IAS. Read more here | Gendering peacemaking in the Middle East - new research project
External research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Read more | | | | CMES part of FASTER summer schoolFASTER summer school aims to enhance knowledge transfer between researchers and experts to farm advisory agents and professional organisations in the agricultural sector. In particular, the summer school program will actively engage participants to adopt the user-centred and multi-stakeholder approach to integrate research results and professional knowledge on the specific topics related to adaptation to climate change in the fields of water, soil and agriculture. For the above reasons, the summer school have interactive formats for experts, farm advisory agents and other actors of the agriculture sector in North and North-West Tunisia to interact and share experiences, as well as contributing to the co-design of adaptation solutions and improving the production of relevant scientific information relevant in farmer advice. FASTERFarmers’ Adaptation and Sustainability in Tunisia through Excellence in Research. It aims to reinforce research and knowledge transfer capacity of INRGREF related to innovative land and water management in view of climate change and its implementation through the use of Farm Advisory Systems (FAS). More info | CMES director Karin Aggestam has written a piece together with prof Isabell Schierenbeck, Gothenburg University- on a regional solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in the Swedish daily Sydsvenska dagbladet. | | | | CMES Pinar Dinc has written an op-ed in a Turkish newspaper called Evrensel. The piece is about Dersim 1937-38, an act of state violence in the early republican history of Turkey. She argues that the Dersim apology of Erdoğan in 2011 was a pseudo-apology.
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The impact of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna on Husain al-HouthiCMES Mohammed Almahfali´s latest article elucidates the influence of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, on Hussein Al-Houthi, the founder of the Houthi movement in Yemen, by comparing al-Houthi’s Malazim (lectures) to al-Banna’s Rasa'il (messages) .More info
| | | CMES writing retreatsCMES is delighted to warmly welcome Torsten Jansson, Islamic studies, Svante Lundgren, History of religions, and Lisa Strömbom, Political science, for autumn sabbaticals at CMES. | Find Middle East Research at Lund University
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| CMES Rola El-Husseini participated in a large conference organised by Gothenburg University's GLD on Gender in the Middle East. She presented a paper titled "Theorising State Feminism after the Arab Uprisings". More info about the conference. On May 25 and 26 she participated in an ECPR joint session, and presented a paper titled "Islam and Charity in North Lebanon." The workshop "Hybrid Pathways to Resistance in the Muslim World: Islamist Groups and the Modern State in a Comparative Perspective" was led by Olivier Roy and Tine Gade. | Arab Spring - ten years afterSeveral researchers at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects.
Read more | CMES Maria F Malmström gave a talk at the University of Sydney May 13The series of talks is called "AraBooks: Literature, politics, society and the arts from the Arab world, the Middle East and its diasporas." Read more here | | | |
About this newsletterThis is a newsletter from the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. With the objective to provide an overview Middle Eastern studies undertaken at Lund University, this newsletter is intended to give updates on research, events, and other related news. It is also intended to form a window towards the society, showcasing important Middle Eastern research conducted at Lund University. Editor: Maria Löfstedt, Communications Officer Subscribe here! Send the newsletter to a friend! UNSUBSCRIBE |
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