By: Amina Abubakar Ali, BA English Literature and Arabic I am a British-Somali, currently studying Arabic, on my year abroad in Alexandria, Egypt. Before I started my year abroad, my friends and family questioned how… Read More »POSTCARDS TO SOAS: Egypt
By: Benjamin Jackson, MSc Violence, Conflict and Development The Browne Review and 2012 changes Since tuition fees trebled in 2012, there has been much scrutiny on university funding, but less information – the majority… Read More »News Made Easy: University Funding
Twenty years after the release of her Man-Booker Prize winning novel “The God of Small Things”, Arundhati Roy makes her fictional return with the much-anticipated “Ministry of Utmost Happiness”– and it does not disappoint. A… Read More »Book Review: Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Following the hard picket initiated on 16 March, six of the student protesters who blocked access to SOAS’ main building have been subject to the university’s disciplinary procedures over a period now spanning months.The events… Read More »Hard Picket Protesters Facing ‘Weaponised’ Disciplinaries for Blocking Entry to Main Building
The world’s fourth largest democracy and seventh largest economy is electing a new president. Jair Bolsonaro (also known as “Trump of the tropics”) and Fernando Haddad (from the centre-left Worker’s Party) will stage a fierce… Read More »ONLINE EXCLUSIVE – Brazilian Elections: Far-Right on the Rise
SOAS’ £20,000 PhD compensation student, Dr Vishal Vora, has began an online petition calling for SOAS management to issue a formal apology for supervision failures. Dr Vora, a former SOAS PhD student, was compensated £20,000… Read More »SOAS’ £20k compensation student calls for university to issue formal apology.