Published 16 December 2021 CMES scholars Maria Frederika Malmström and Mark LeVine have authored "Touching Sound: Passion and Global Politics Workshop Report", published in the Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series. Among other things, the report is based on findings from a 2019 workshop. Participation was enabled through funding from CMES as well as Aga Khan University. How does sound shape

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/touching-sound-passion-and-global-politics-workshop-report - 2025-07-01

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 14 January 2022 The border between Turkey in the north and Syria in the south has similar biophysical characteristics but shows a difference in vegetation greenness. Research at Lund University tries to find out why. Image from SentinelHub. To find out why so many people have left their farms in north-eastern Syria, phys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/knowledge-about-climate-stress-could-counteract-conflicts - 2025-07-01

Published 17 January 2022 Cover: Routledge CMES researcher Pınar Dinç has authored the chapter "Dersim 1937–38: Shifts and continuities in the state discourse and reasoning under Kemalism and Erdoğanism". Pınar's chapter is part of the edited volume The Kurds in Erdogan's "New" Turkey: Domestic and International Implications (2022, editor Nikos Christofis). The book focuses on the AKP government s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/turkish-state-discourse-dersim-1937-38 - 2025-07-01

Published 19 January 2022 Together with Ahmad Fakheri Fard (University of Tabriz), CMES researchers Hasan Hosseini, Hossein Hashemi and Ronny Berndtsson have co-authored the paper "Areal Precipitation Coverage Ratio for Enhanced AI Modelling of Monthly Runoff: A New Satellite Data-Driven Scheme for Semi-Arid Mountainous Climate", available online in the journal Remote Sensing. Satellite remote sen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/areal-precipitation-coverage-and-monthly-runoff-iran - 2025-07-01

Published 21 January 2022 Together with Maziar Mohammadi (Tarbiat Modares University) and Alireza Motevalli (Tarbiat Modares University), CMES researchers Seyed Amir Naghibi and Hossein Hashemi have authored the article "Human-induced arsenic pollution modeling in surface waters - An integrated approach using machine learning algorithms and environmental factors", available online in the Journal o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arsenic-pollution-modeling-surface-waters-iran - 2025-07-01

Published 24 January 2022 Together with Khaoula Khemiri (University of Tunis El Manar), Sihem Jebari (National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry Tunisia), Naceur Mahdhi (Institute of Arid Regions of Medenine, Tunisia), Ines Saidi (National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry Tunisia), and Sinan Bacha (National Centre for Cartography and Remote Se

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/drivers-long-term-land-use-pressure-tunisia - 2025-07-01

Published 1 February 2022 Together with Sonia Sabbahi (Université de Carthage), Layla Ben Ayed (Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie), Monia Trad (Université de Carthage) and Panagiotis Karanis (University of Nicosia Medical School), CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has authored the article "Parasitological Assessment of Sewage Sludge Samples for Potential Agricultural Reuse in Tunisia",

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reuse-wastewater-sludge-tunisian-agriculture - 2025-07-01

Published 3 February 2022 Together with Yoav Kapshuk (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galile), CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has authored the article "Tracing Responses to Recognition in the Oslo Peace Process and its Aftermath - the Interlinkage between Relational and Internal Ontological Security" in the journal Conflict Resolution Quarterly (open access). The article deals with mechanisms for how f

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/recognition-israeli-palestinian-relations - 2025-07-01

Published 9 February 2022 Together with Dalila Souguir (University of Carthage), Sourour Mzahma (University of Carthage), Hanen Filali (University of Carthage), Mohamed Hachicha (University of Carthage), CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has authored the article "Vicia–Micronucleus Test Application for Saline Irrigation Water Risk Assessment", available in the journal Plants. In view of climat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/irrigation-water-risk-assessment-tunisia - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 September 2019 CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice-routledge-research-race - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 September 2019 CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. Media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013; a comparison between Al-Jazeera

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-2011-2013-comparison-between-al-jazeera-and-al-manar-channels - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 September 2019 CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". Dersim Anatolian High School in Ataturk Neighborhood of Tunceli: Naming, renaming, and contingent openings in Turkey The politics of pl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dersim-anatolian-high-school-ataturk-neighborhood-tunceli-naming-renaming-and-contingent-openings - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 September 2019 CMES affiliated researcher Josepha Wessels will be presenting her work at the conference: "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring". The conference is hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/artistic-expression-regime-critical-activism-and-social-networks-syrians-denmark-and-sweden - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 September 2019 CMES researcher Mohammed Almahfali, is presenting his work at the conference "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring" in Copenhagen. Photo: Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash Mohammed´s presentation: "Discourse of Yemeni TV broadcasters and the Dilemma of Regime C

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/discourse-yemeni-tv-broadcasters-and-dilemma-regime-criticism-2015-2019 - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 August 2019 A seminar at Malmö University, with Michael Degerald, Visiting Researcher, CMES.   Heritage, archives, and state power. Digital traces of Iraq’s cultural and political history in state media and publications. Photo: Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash It will take place on Wednesday, September 4 at 10.15-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/heritage-archives-and-state-power-digital-traces-iraqs-cultural-and-political-history-state-media - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 August 2019 Spyros Sofos, CMES Research Coordinator, is giving a lecture at UPF, The Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund, September 11 at 7 pm. In the morning of September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated attacks by al-Qaeda in the USA, killed 2,996 people and injured over double that number. 9/11 led to legisla

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/differential-citizenship-rights-european-muslims-and-far-right-populism-aftermath-islamic-states - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 August 2019 The second edition of Syria Docdays will take place on 7 and 8 September at Panora Folkets bio in Malmö. Syrian Docdays in Malmö CMES affiliated researcher, Joshka Wessels from Malmö University, will give a book talk about her new book "Documenting Syria: filmmaking, video activism and revolution" at Fil

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-docdays-malmo-book-talk-joshka-wessels - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 23 August 2019 New article by CMES affiliated researchers Orwa Ajjoub and James Root. Salafi-Jihadis and white supremacists see the world in a way reminiscent of Samuel Huntington’s 1996 “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, which posited that in the post-Cold War era, world conflicts would emerge between “civilizations” ra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/through-looking-glass-clash-civilizations-narrative-extremist-worldviews - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 22 August 2019 Would you like to examine the impact the September 11 terrorist attack has had on religious practice and on interpretations of religious records in Judaism, Christianity and Islam? And also participate in a study trip to Istanbul and Jerusalem? Religion, Heritage, and Generation - Conceptualizing Religio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/religion-heritage-and-generation-conceptualizing-religion-after-911 - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 August 2019 This analysis examines the foreign policy features and domestic implications of British policy towards Iran between 1974 and 1976. Starting with the assumption that economic interests, as well as Cold War imperatives, shaped British policy towards Iran into one where human rights had no space, the conduc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-vittorio-felci-anti-shah-activism-and-british-policy-towards-iran-1974-1976 - 2025-07-01