By Ciaran Hay (Credit to Cristina del Carmen Giocondo for translating) Political Economy of Development Msc Unfair pay and working conditions ignite intermittent walkouts throughout ‘SOAS Welcome Week’. Sitting down with Consuelo Moreno it becomes immediately apparent that the SOAS cleaners, security, library assistants and other staff are facing pay
International News
By: Marie Vandermeulen, B.A. International Relations and Law “These attacks confirmed fears that the American troop withdrawal would leave Afghan women particularly vulnerable to the Taliban’s onslaught “ In recent years, the Dasht – e Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul has witnessed some of the region’s most destructive attacks. In
International News
By Neel Sengupta MSc Development Studies In the 8 months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict has shifted in tone and material reality. The first months were characterised by a defence on the part of the outnumbered and supposedly outgunned Ukrainian Armed Forces against concerted Russian efforts to
By Emily Holdcroft, BA Social Anthropology On Monday 5th September 2022, Chris Kaba was shot and killed by a MET police officer, only known as NX121. Just 24 years old, Kaba leaves behind a pregnant fiancee, and the grief for his unjust death felt widely across his family, community and
football
By Kyle Gehman, BA Development Studies While some students used February’s reading week to their academic advantage, the SOAS men’s football team was busy going on a fairytale run in the Les Parisiennes sports tournament in Paris which ended in a tense final against the hosts Sciences Po.
Sober Girl Society
By Lulu Goad, BA Arabic The pandemic turbulence has rattled on, reaching new highs at the end of 2021, with global statistics showing downward trends, in almost everything one would expect and hope to be heading in the opposite direction. One significant shift, that seems to have gone somewhat unaddressed,
music
By Hala Haidar, BA Global Development On 25 March, the SOAS Drama and Musical Society will be putting on their Cabaret show in the Djam Lecture Theatre — an evening full of performances from various musicals such as ‘Cell Block Tango’ from the highly acclaimed show Chicago, The Jet Song from
football
By Carmel Mould, History & World Philosophies BA How could a beginner like me go from never playing football, to being a part of the undefeated SOAS Women’s Football Club (WFC) this season? One word: opportunity. As a child, I loved the game and sometimes scraped in with the
culture
By Frances Howe, LLB I don’t remember any significant moment growing up where I became conscious of who Amy Winehouse was. Born in 1999 myself, Winehouse’s albums are a component part of the sonic wallpaper that made up the sound of my childhood. The first sleepover party I
culture
By Anisah Mahamoud, BA International Relations The first season of this improbable cult hit became legendary for how casually it hypersexualized adolescent life within the confines of a fantasy but ultimately explicit visual language. Season one received positive reviews, and Zendaya, who plays Rue Bennett on the show, earned an
culture
By Jo-Gerard Re’Em, BMus The SOAS Bachelor of Music (BMus) undergraduate degree is in its final months and the last two students of the BA Global Music degree graduate next year. The programmes are being discontinued and their modules swallowed up by the broader BA Creative Arts degree. This
culture
By Clayton Barrington Russell, BA Arabic and International Relations On 20 February this year, the UK sadly lost one of its greatest cultural contributors of the 21st Century. Jamal Edwards MBE was perhaps the most influential pioneer in establishing the UK’s urban music and grime scene, creating SBTV as