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CMESNewsletter #35April 2023 | | | | Message From the DirectorOpen CMES calls for travel grants and workshops!While the spring semester is soon coming to an end at Lund University, CMES is still busy with a broad range of activities. At the end of April, CMES organised a festive celebration ceremony for the students who successfully completed CMES Arabic Language Courses. An international workshop will be held next week on the theme “Israel at the Crossroads: Democratic Backsliding and Elusive Peace.” Leading national and international scholars in the field will be attending, including a keynote speech delivered by the well-known Swedish journalist and author Göran Rosenberg. Two highly topical research seminars are also held during the month of May on the prospects of democracy in Iran and droughts in Syria and Iraq. In addition, CMES is participating in several outreach activities. We are organising two highly topical panels in Almedalen this summer on climate change in the Middle East and on the ongoing political protests in Israel. CMES is also participating with several panels at the second annual conference of the Swedish Middle East North Africa Network (SWEMENA) hosted by Stockholm University in late August. Finally please note that CMES has a number of calls out for workshop proposals and travel grants. CMES looks forward to receiving many exciting proposals! There will also be more calls coming soon for a tenure track position in Islamic studies and new post-doc positions.
So stay tuned on the CMES website, social media and by subscribing to the Newsletter. | Karin AggestamCMES Director and MECW Coordinator
| | | | The World is Burning - Photo Exhibition and Film ScreeningOn 18 April, CMES scholars Lina Eklund and Pinar Dinc organized and participated in an event on global wildfires. Wildfires are a frequent phenomenon perceived as a global threat that puts the future of life on earth at risk. The event included at photo exhibition demonstrating the multifaceted issues of wildfires in the Anthropocene, and a screening of the wildfire documentary film "Paradise". It was organized as part of Lund University's Sustainability Week 2023. Photo: Karin Aggestam | | | | Professorship in Olof Palme’s MemoryRaphael Cohen-Almagor, a multifaceted British-Israeli researcher has been awarded the prestigious visiting professorship in Olof Palme’s memory and is spending 10 months at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. The right to euthanasia, multiculturalism and peace in Israel and Palestine are a few of his areas of research. Common themes to all his research are ethics, peace, justice and social responsibility. Read the interview with Raphael Cohen-Almagor | | | | Women in LebanonOn March 16, CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean participated in an online event about the humanitarian impact of Lebanon's deepening crises hosted by the Arab Center Washington DC. Rola spoke about the country’s religious personal status laws and its nationality law, as well as domestic violence and child marriage. You can watch a recording of the event here. | | | | Academic Freedom and Freedom of ExpressionOn 19 April, Olof Palme Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor participated in a seminar on academic freedom and freedom of expression together with Noam Chomsky. The event was organised by the Middle East Study Centre (MESC) at Hull University and can be viewed here. | | | | Gender in Arab Authoritarian RegimesOn March 21, CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean participated in a panel on feminism and receptions of knowledge in the Arab world, organised by The Arab Center for Research and Political Studies of Paris (CAREP Paris). Rola spoke about how authoritarian regimes in the Arab world instrumentalize gender. You can watch a recording of the panel (in French) here. | | | | Dust Storms, AI and Ancient Knowledge in the Middle EastThe MENA region loses about $13 billion a year because of increasing sand and dust storms. By combining learnings from artificial intelligence and 3000-year-old sustainable methods, researchers might be on the way to finding out how to mitigate the damages. CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi is interviewed about his MECW project on dust storms. Read the article here. Photo: AFP PHOTO/STR
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