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Nathan Guerin, BA History One can only imagine the regret Valerie Amos must feel at taking her current position. An inherently distrustful student body already regards her with contempt; she’s finally been featured in The Guardian as something other than a selfless, humanitarian, wonder woman; and a rotating ensemble
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Anonymous The SOAS Occupation is both a hopeful and sad reality, which we celebrate on its third week of existence this Tuesday 27th October 2015. Let us remember where our SOAS Community was at three weeks ago: Heads of Department had a document in their mailboxes outlining decisions made by
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Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish The last time bombs were falling on Gaza in their multitudes, I was living in Hebron – the biggest city in the West Bank and perhaps the least-touristed. Hebron, despite being associated with Abraham and thus an important city in Islamic, Jewish and Christian traditions,
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Nigel McCollum, MA South East Asian Studies with Thai Since the very sorry saga when Pro-Director Professor Rao ‘leaked’ the course cuts documents, we have seen the reputation of SOAS exposed in both the UK and Indian Press. While of course, each and every one of us make mistakes, I
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Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Zaina Erhaim, hailing from Idlib, Syria, has spent 9 years in the field of journalism, reporting largely in print and online news media. Once the revolution of her homeland turned to civil war, with each day casualties and displaces persons growing in their tens
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Jordana Belaiche, BA Poltiics I am surrounded by the warm dim light of the Brunei Gallery. It looks exceedingly different to the polished corporate space that I remember, a space dedicated to showing off SOAS’ wealth – generally used for events including symposiums, landmark anniversary exhibitions and various cultural events and
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Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish On the 25th September, SOAS announced that they would be providing 7 new scholarships for refugees at an undergraduate and postgraduate level in time for the next academic year. Two days prior to the announcement, The SOAS Spirit had published an article containing comments
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Alistair Rooms, BA History and Politics To show the wealth of SOAS academics, Alistair Rooms has decided to interview various teachers with a set of simple questions. Hopefully we will learn more about SOAS academics and gain some pearls of wisdom. Stephen came to SOAS in 2002 and is an
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Will Sheret, BA History and Politics On December 1st the Government will publish the newly updated electoral register after an 18 month transition period to change the Electoral register from its traditional ‘Head of Household’ model to Individual Electoral Register (IER); whereby everyone is required to register individually. Whilst it
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When I saw Luke McManus’ piece, Does the Political Correctness of Students’ Unions Undermine their Decisions? in the online edition of the SOAS Spirit, I almost stopped reading there and then. The juxtaposition of an attack on the ‘Political Correctness’ of unions with a picture of the train tracks at
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Jonny Morrison, BA Politics In an address to staff on Thursday, SOAS director Valerie Amos had laid out plans to increase cuts to the school budget by 117%, from £3million to £6.5million, by removing post-graduate growth targets and taking into account recruitment for this academic year. This comes a