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Student Power Coalition Wins Elections Despite Poor Turnout
By Barty Roberts, BA Politics and International Relations Safia Shaikh (Activities and Events), Abel Harvie-Clark (Democracy and Education), Alex Cachinero-Gorman (Welfare and Campaigns) and Hamayal Zaib (Equality and Liberation) have all been elected to become SOAS SU Co-Presidents despite turnout failing to surpass 30% (full results can be found on
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The Death of Comic Book Movies?
By Nathan Hay, BA Social Anthropology Caption: Marvel has failed to captivate their audience lately in the same way they once did Source: https://deadline.com/2022/06/marvel-kevin-feige-phase-4-secret-wars-1235048750/ Superhero fatigue. With every new Marvel movie, the phrase does the rounds on social media. Since the pandemic began, Marvel Studios
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Why does Hilary Clinton care about Barbie being snubbed at the Oscars? And why should we even be outraged?
BY Hodan Sultan BA History of Art and History The internet went into a frenzy the day that the Oscar nominations for 2024 were announced, even politicians suddenly became film critics. But where has this outrage come from? The Academy Award nominations are always something we look forward to and
culture
YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND
By Amran Abdiqadir-Mohamed, BA Global Development and Social Anthropology Photograph conceived as a poster for Works by Yoko Ono, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, 1961 The Tate Modern is now presenting the UK’s largest exhibition celebrating the ground-breaking and influential work of artist and activist Yoko Ono (b. 1933,
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The Boy and The Heron: Hayao Miyazaki’s Legacy
BY Valentina Rios – BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics 2023 has been a brilliant year for cinema, giving us so many great titles to choose from. One film that stood out in particular was Hayao Miyazaki’s long-awaited The Boy and The Heron, a reflective piece of art dealing with themes
culture
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
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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
Law
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
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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
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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
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Roaming Reporter: 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