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By Laura Wormington On 14th December, I joined a small, buzzing crowd in the Djam Lecture Theatre for the SOAS Drama Society’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Small Craft Warnings, their first major performance of the academic year, produced by this year’s society president, Oscar Ward. The single-act, hour-long, darkly comic play, one of Williams’ lesser known, […]
Simone Both, PG Near and Middle Eastern Studies In less than 200 days, the FIFA Women’s World Cup will start in France. The tournament will be held between the 7thof June and the 7thof July in multiple cities all over the country such as Lyon, Nice, Montpellier and, of course, Paris. Halfway through November, the […]
Amy Thomson, BA Social Anthropology During Reading Week (2-11 November) 13 members of SOAS Ceilidh Band, SOAS Guerrilla Choir and Soas Goes to Calais and Beyond Society, travelled to Lebanon to do solidarity volunteering work in refugee camps. This included visiting both the historic Palestinian camps (since 1948) and the more recent camps for Syrian […]
(Mariyam) Malika Azeez, BA Social Anthropology and Study of Religions You might have seen us wearing huge boob suits, glittering people up at the JCR or selling yummy bakes—We are the Uni Boob Team! Ours is a new society on campus, aiming to raise awareness about breast cancer among young people. Trust your touch. As […]
By, Anna Jordan BA Development Studies and History & Holly Ogborne BA International Relations and Developmental Studies Competition in sport can be fun but the competitive element should not extend beyond that into the social aspects of a club. No one should have to prove themselves through initiation rituals or feel excluded by social […]
