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Newsletter #27

April 2022

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Message from the Director

Spring greetings from the CMES team!

Spring is a wonderful time of the year at CMES with its surrounding gardens covered with beautiful flower beds! It is also a busy time of the year with preparing new research applications. The deadline is soon approaching for the CMES call for project proposals on April 19 and we hope to receive many exciting ones. Coming up next week is also a new call for two writing retreats at CMES in the autumn.

Please note that CMES is hosting an “Open House” on May 18 between 13-16. You are all warmly welcome to mingle with CMES scholars and read their excellent posters, which showcase their ongoing research. Drinks and snacks will be served!

CMES warmly welcomes the new professor of Islamic Studies Oliver Scharbrodt! He will give both a talk at the CMES research seminar on May 12 and a roundtable on Transnational Twelver Shiism on May 19 as part of his inaugural day and lecture. You are all warmly welcome to attend!

Finally, after two years of the pandemic Almedalen is back on track this summer. CMES is part of the program and organises two highly topical panels on trendspotting democracy in the region and on the implementation of UN resolution 1325. The panels consist of an exciting mixture of Middle East scholars and practitioners.

Wishing you happy spring holidays! Stay tuned on the CMES website, social media and by subscribing to the Newsletter.

Karin Aggestam

CMES Director and MECW Coordinator

Latest Research News

Open Call for Project Proposals - Deadline April 19

CMES supports supports and coordinates research projects with high scientific potential, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from different disciplines within Lund University. All project members will get institutional affiliation with CMES and perform the research at CMES. One research project will be funded, starting in September 2022 and running for 3 years. Applications are open to scholars with employment at Lund University that hold doctoral degrees from at least two different disciplines. Deadline for applications: 19 April 2022. More information can be found on the CMES website.

A city in front of two of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt

SWEMENA Conference 2022: June 13-14

The 2022 SWEMENA conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden to discuss contributions presented by researchers working on MENA-related topics. The conference will be held at the University of Gothenburg's School of Global Studies. The deadline for registering is May 13, 2022: registration form for attendees.

The title "Hydrosolidarity" in front of a photo of an old building surrounded by green trees.

Hydrosolidarity Video: Cooperation and Conflict Resolution in International Water Governance

The Pufendorf Institute at Lund University has produced a short video about the the research theme "Hydrosolidarity 2.0: Ethics and Conflict Resolution in International Water Governance." Participating from CMES are Researcher Dalia Abdel Hady, Director Karin Aggestam and Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson.

Working-Class Children of Immigrants

On April 8, CMES scholar Dalia Abdelhady gave a lecture at Umeå University titled "Learning to Succeed, Learning to Endure: The Working-Class Children of Immigrants in Three Contexts". To learn more, visit Dalia's research profile and Umeå University's website.

Upcoming CMES Events

May 12: Creating an Alternative Umma - Clerical Authority and Religio-Political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam

CMES Research Seminar with Oliver Scharbrodt (Lund University). At CMES and on Zoom, 13:15-14:30.

The CMES building on a lawn of blue flowers

May 18: Open House at CMES

CMES scholars will be showcasing their ongoing Middle East research with posters on display. At CMES, 13:00-16:00.

Photo of two domes on top of a Shia shrine in Iraq. One is gold and the other is blue with gold mosaic patterns.

May 19: Resistance, Diaspora and Sensory Material Culture - New Insights from Current Research on Transnational Twelver Shiism

CMES Roundtable with Oula Kadhum, Fouad Marei, Stefan Williamson Fa, Nada Al-Hudaid and Yafa Shanneik. At CMES, 15:00-16:30.

June 9: Law, Language and Space Making - Three Dimensions of Human Rights in Egyptian Feminist Activism Post-2011

CMES Research Seminar with Emma Sundkvist (Lund University). At CMES and on Zoom, 13:15-14:30.

June 16: PhD Defence with Focus on Iran

Hasan Hosseini, doctoral student at CMES, will defend his PhD thesis Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Runoff Simulation. At V-huset (room V:C), 10:00.

Photo of the Lund University building behind a skyline of Visby

July 6: Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern

CMES event in Almedalen with Cecilia Uddén, Dalia Abdelhady, Rouzbeh Parsi, Isabell Schierenbeck and Karin Aggestam. In Visby (Hästg. 13), 11:15-12:15.

July 6: Jämställd fred i Mellanöstern - är det möjligt?

CMES event in Almedalen with Charlotta Sparre, Emma Sundkvist, Joel Abdelmoez, Marie Wikström and Karin Aggestam. In Visby (Hästg. 13), 13:45-14:45.

Recent Publications

A map of the Marvdasht aquifer in the south of Iran

"A hybrid approach based on simulation, optimization, and estimation of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources"

Authors: Naser Arya Azar, Zahra Kayhomayoon, Sami Ghordoyee Milan, HamedReza Zarif Sanayei, Ronny Berndtsson and Zahra Nematollahi

Cover of the report "The Syrian Climate-Migration-Conflict Nexus"

The Syrian Climate-Migration-Conflict Nexus: An Annotated Bibliography

Authors: Gianna Angermayr, Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund

"National Ambition, Divergent Vision: Consensus and Fracture Among Iraqi Youth Activists of the Tishreen Movement"

Authors: Sarah Anne Rennick and Adel Bakawan

"Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan"

Authors: Pinar Dinc

"Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology”

Authors: Lina Eklund, Ole Magnus Theisen, Matthias Baumann, Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Tobias Kuemmerle and Jonas Østergaard Nielsen

Find Out More About Middle East Research at Lund University

Lund University conducts Middle Eastern research of international quality and with a societal relevance across and between faculties. To find out more about the Middle East research being conducted at LU in Science, Medicine, Engineering, Humanities and Theology, and Social Sciences, please visit our website.

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This 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.

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