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CMESNewsletter #44April 2024 | | | | Message From the DirectorOpen CMES calls for travel grants and workshops! This time of the year is the most “magical” at Lund University with the magnolia and fruit trees blossoming everywhere amidst students celebrating Valborg in beautiful sunny weather☀️ 🌸 April has been a busy month at CMES with many varied activities. Noteworthy among these were two international events: a policy-research dialogue on Europe and Iran, and a workshop on Women and Youth Activists in the Middle East and North Africa region. Furthermore, Morocco’s Ambassador visited Lund University and received a briefing about LU Strategic Research Areas in general and the Middle East research program in particular. CMES also celebrated Eid al-Fitr with staff and students with delicious treats from the Middle East. In May, several highly topical seminars on Israel Palestine are held, two on memory politics and one with Samir Abu Eid from Swedish Public Service Television. This public seminar is co-organised with the Students’ Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund and the Department of Political Science. Finally, please note that the deadline for paper, panel and roundtable proposals to the SWEMENA annual conference is today! Additionally, CMES has issued calls for workshop proposals and travel grants with a deadline set for 31 May!
Stay tuned on the CMES website, social media and by subscribing to the Newsletter. | Karin AggestamCMES Director and MECW Coordinator
| | | | Source: Wikimedia Commons | | | | Satellite images of Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Israel (Landsat/Copernicus) | | | | Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren | | | | Eid Celebration at CMESEid al-Fitr celebrations with staff and students at CMES with delicious treats from the Middle East. Thank you to our language teacher Rafah Barhoum for organizing! | | | | Paradoxes in JerusalemCMES scholar Torsten Janson has given two talks about his research and field work in Jerusalem last semester. He participated in The Centre for Theology and Religious Studies' Master's Meetings, giving the presentation "Sleepless in al-Quds: four field paradoxes pre/post 7.10". He also gave a presentation at a film seminar organised by Lund Academics for Palestine, Lund Students for Palestine, and Malmö Students for Palestine. | | | | Peace and Environmental Justice in the Middle EastCMES scholar Pinar Dinc recently participated in Lund University's Sustainability Week, where her research on the links between conflict and the environment in the Middle East was featured in a poster exhibition at the Social Sciences Faculty Library. Pinar also gave several reading recommendations for staff and students interested in learning more about the conflict-environment nexus. | | | | Photo: Michael Paul Gollmer/Wikimedia | | | |
13 June: AI in the Service of Socio-Politically Adapted Sustainable Dust-Storm Control in the Middle EastCMES research seminar with Hossein Hashemi (CMES and Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University), Amir Naghibi (CMES and Division of Water Resources Engineering, LU), Sara Brogaard (CMES and LUCSUS, LU), Ali Mansourian (CMES and Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, LU), and Pengziang Zhao (CMES and Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, LU). At CMES and on Zoom, 13:15-14:30. | | | | Looking for an Expert on the Middle East and North Africa?CMES researchers conduct research on a range of themes related to countries in the MENA region: democratization, migration and sustainable socio-economic development; environment and sustainable development; religion, identity and culture; and security and sustainable peace. To find out more, please visit our website's list of experts. | Find Out More About Middle East Research at Lund UniversityLund 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. | |
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. Subscribe here Send the CMES Newsletter to a friend UNSUBSCRIBE |
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