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Universal Versus Tiktok: Why the Sibling Rivalry?

Universal Versus Tiktok: Why the Sibling Rivalry?

By Melina Tavakoli Moghaddam, BA Politics and International Relations Headline: Universal Versus Tiktok: Why the Sibling Rivalry? Since one random September day in 2016, TikTok launched itself headfirst into the music industry. As an application designed around the 15-second ‘Get Ready With Me’ and ten-minute-long rants about the political climate

Facelift – The revamping of a long-lost society. SOAS BLA(C)K PANTHERS SOCIETY

By Ismail Abdi BA International Relations and Economic How would you like to form part of a new “society”? While I am sure most of you, dear readers, will have already engaged with plenty here at SOAS, I’d like to simply ask: besides the organisational aspect, how many of

Round-up: What’s the Law Society been up to this term?

BY Amina Khadidja Sadoun, BA Politics and International Relations The SOAS Law Society has had an eventful term. There have been myriad opportunities and events hosted by the society’s dedicated committee of future barristers and solicitors from newsletters, career opportunities, and the annual law ball. The Law Society kicked

Songs of the Tigris

By Amaar Baloch, BA History Along flows the Tigris, Carrying with her the weight of the world. Unrequited love, Unfulfilled dreams, Undeserved pain, From countless centuries come and gone and yet to arrive. She thinks to herself: “Perhaps this is the last load, and my people can finally be at

Turn Up The Volume: SOAS Radio Society Is Finally Back

Turn Up The Volume: SOAS Radio Society Is Finally Back

By Jacob Delos Santos, MA Global Media & Digital Communications After one academic year of radio silence, SOAS’ Radio Society is making its long-awaited comeback this March. The broadcasting group is being reinstated into the Student Union after long talks spearheaded by its new President, Noha Mohamed. The news of

All Hail Lord Xenu: How the Church of Scientology Cured My Depression Through Dianetics

All Hail Lord Xenu: How the Church of Scientology Cured My Depression Through Dianetics

BY Jacob Winter, BA Politics and International Relations 75 million years ago, the alien tyrant Xenu brought billions of aliens to the planet Earth, known then as Teegeeack, and wiped them out by placing them next to volcanoes and detonating hydrogen bombs. The spirits of these dead aliens, Thetans, possess

The Prominent anti-Putin activist Aleksei Navalny died a month before elections

By Ave Bozic, BA Politics and Korean Former Russian opposition leader and Anti-Putin activist, Aleksei Navalny, passed away in prison on February 16th at age 47. Navalny, the most prominent and successful opponent of current president Vladimir Putin and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), has died a month before