Published 6 February 2017 On Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15.30-17.00 Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi will hold a lecture entitled: "Breaking The Cycle of Hate" in the seminar room at the Center for Middle Eastern studies (Finngatan 16). The lecture is jointly organized by The Center for Middle Eastern studies and SASNET. We live in an increasingly polarised world where-in stereotypes, broad generalizations and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetcmes-lecture-counter-extremism-pakistan - 2025-07-25

Published 8 February 2017 Andreas Johansson with Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda, PhD Scholars from School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, visited SASNET's office. Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda are Erasmus + Visiting Doctoral Fellows at School of Social Work, Lund University from Jan, 2017 till May, 2017.Rishi Jha's doctoral thesis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-scholars-tiss-visited-sasnet - 2025-07-25

Published 8 February 2017 The South Asia Collective produces the annual South Asia State of Minorities Report, on the condition of minorities in each country in the region and the quality of state provisioning for them. The South Asia Collective released their inaugural 2016 report regionally in Kathmandu in November last year and are releasing it globally at UN Human Rights Council's upcoming mee

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-state-minorities-report - 2025-07-25

Published 8 February 2017 On the 16th of December 2016, Murad Altamash defended his PhD thesis at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Murad Altamash is from Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine Karachi in Pakistan and his thesis is entitled: "Periodontal conditions and treatment outcomes for subjects with diabetes mellitus : special emphasis on HbA1c levels and T-cells". Go for the thesis. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/murad-altamash-defended-his-phd-thesis-karolinska - 2025-07-25

Published 8 February 2017 The scholarship application period has now started for The Lund University Global Scholarship and the deadline to apply is 15 February. Are you a non-EU/EEA student who applied to autumn 2017 Bachelor’s or Master’s studies? Check if you are eligible to apply for the Lund University Global Scholarship. The scholarship is merit-based and selective and can cover a part of or

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-global-scholarship - 2025-07-25

Published 11 February 2017 The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID's major objective is to facilitate social empowerment

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2025-07-25

Published 13 February 2017 The book entitled "Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities" has recently been published. The book is edited by Anwar Alam, Department of International Relations, Zirve University, Gaziantep (Turkey) and Konrad Pedziwiatr, Department of European Studies, Cracow University of Economics (Poland). AbstractSince the late 20th cen

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-muslim-minorities-europe-and-india - 2025-07-25

Published 18 February 2017 SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should hav

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-07-25

Published 18 February 2017 For the third year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university-0 - 2025-07-25

Published 21 February 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo published an article in the Conversation on Afghan asylum seekers. When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West [...]. Read more. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-afghan-asylum-seekers - 2025-07-25

Published 24 February 2017 On Thursday 23 February 2017 SASNET met up with this year's participants of the Swedish Institute's Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) Programme at Media Evolution City in Malmö, Sweden. What is the relation between responsible leadership, social change and creativity? How can society tackle the growing trend of populism, polarization and hate speeches while still keep

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-met-ycf-2016-group-malmo - 2025-07-25

Published 23 September 2024 Illustration DALL-E Why does peace diplomacy fail? What role do nuclear weapons play in security, deterrence, and peace? And is it possible to educate for peace? Welcome to a seminar on Peace Day 2024. 24 September 2024 13:00 to 15:00 Welcome by Isabel Bramsen, Director of Peace and Conflict studies The Failure of Peace Diplomacy, Karin Aggestam, Director of Centre for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/peace-day-2024-elusive-peace-israel-palestine - 2025-07-25

Published 3 October 2024 CMES affiliated scholar Dalia Dassa Kaye has authored an article published in Foreign Affairs. The article “Where will Israel’s Multifront War End? There May Not be a Better Day After”, is written by Dalia Dassa Kaye. It was published in Foreign Affairs on 2 October 2024After a year of war, there is a real possibility of no better “day after” in Gaza or the rest of the reg

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/where-will-israels-multifront-war-end - 2025-07-25

Published 4 October 2024 Applications are now open for CMES Project Proposals (2025-2028) as well as CMES Writing Retreats (2025). Call for Project Proposals (2025-2028) CMES supports three-year-research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES encourages collaboration between scholars from different discip

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-calls-project-proposals-2025-2028-and-writing-retreats-2025 - 2025-07-25

Published 7 October 2024 Sami Al-Daghistani has recently published an article discussing the emic-etic distinction in Islamic Studies with a special focus on Norway. Sami Al-Daghistani“Emic-Etic Distinction and Islamic Studies in Oslo/Norway,” Tidsskrift for religion og kultur (Journal for Religion and Culture), Issue 1 (September) 2024, Open Accesshttps://ojs.novus.no/index.php/DIN/article/view/2

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sami-al-daghistani-emic-etic-distinction-and-islamic-studies-oslonorway - 2025-07-25

Published 7 October 2024 Sami Al-Daghistani has won the Islamic Economics Research Award for 2024 by ILKE Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey, for his work on Islamic economics and ethics, and his book The Making of Islamic Economic Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021) has won a prestigious award in Islamic Studies and was also nominated for another European award. Congratulations Sami! A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/awards-sami-al-daghistani - 2025-07-25

Published 15 October 2024 In this closing workshop of the project the aim is to present the results and findings of the project’s empirical work and engage the audience in an open dialogue with the researchers and an expert panel in order to provide further insights and challenge some of the misconceptions on refugee movement and decision-making particularly the ones perpetuated in the media. The

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/refugee-decision-making-first-countries-asylum - 2025-07-25

Published 15 October 2024 Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy. I

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-07-25

Published 25 October 2024 On behalf of Lund University and the United Nations University (UNU), Prof. Erik Renström and Prof. Kaveh Madani invite you to the official launch ceremony for the UNU Hub on “Water in a Changing Environment” at Lund University. Lund University is proud to become the second UNU Hub in Europe to address the global issues related to Water in a Changing Environment (WISE). T

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/united-nations-university-hub-launch-ceremony - 2025-07-25

By adam [dot] almqvist [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Adam Almqvist) - published 5 November 2024 Election Ink at the Jordanian General Election 2016. Photo: Raya Sharbain (CC BY-SA 4.0). This Regional Outlook focuses on the 2024 Jordanian parliamentary elections, their political consequences, and how the elections were affected by the War on Gaza. Earlier this fall, on September 10th, almost 1.5 mill

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-jordanian-parliamentary-elections - 2025-07-25