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Zaid Altikriti, Sabbatical Officer- Welfare & Liberation Space has always been a valuable commodity at SOAS. Accommodating a student population of 6000 in a small campus comes with challenges. Over my time at SOAS, however, a series of decisions have been made regarding these spaces that leave me asking myself:
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Marthe Knutsen, MA African Studies ‘Imagine it took a single streamer to go to Africa and show you guys the propaganda you have been fed,’ said @Kwm_Pwr, a Ugandan-Ghanaian TikTok creator, responding to IShowSpeed’s Africa tour. ‘And the internet is free’ he added. In January, the 21-year-old American
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Sia Madden, BA Politics and Africa and Black Diaspora The it-girls of the digital void are cracking open a cold one, so to speak. They’re having what they call a ‘fridge cig.’ But they’re not actually drinking or smoking. Their vice is something else completely. They’re doing
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Melina Tavakoli Moghaddam, Sub-Editor, BA Politics and International Relations with a Year Abroad ***Spoilers ahead! The cast and crew of the hit Canadian TV show Heated Rivalry had a small budget and a dream when heading into filming the adaptation of Rachel Reid’s book series, Game Changers. With only
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Dear Readers of the Spirit, It’s been interesting to see who has been linked to the Epstein files, and frankly incredibly disturbing. We all knew Trump was involved, despite the previously redacted version that was provided to us, but its ties to almost everyone within the political establishment really
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Midnight Adams, MSc Humanitarianism, Aid & Conflict Sinners has been an awards favourite with audiences and critics alike since its release in April 2025. In a year packed with high-profile releases, Sinners has remained the dominant choice for awards season, sweeping the board at the Critics’ Choice, Music City Film
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Elfi Eden, BA International Relations and Africa and Black Diaspora The beginning of 2026 means two things: exam deadlines are out of sight, and the Awards season has begun! The 2023 SAG strikes’ influence is over, meaning the movie pipeline is fully unblocked, which allowed 2025 to be a massive
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Salsabeel Yasir, BA History and International Relations While Gaza faces mass starvation, continued bombardment, and constant displacement despite a supposed ceasefire, a neo-colonial governing structure has emerged to oversee its ‘reconstruction.’ This has been designed by many of the same Western political and corporate elites who denied or downplayed Israel’
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Rachel Tay, MA Middle Eastern Studies Slowly but surely, the skies above us are becoming the new frontier of contestation for digital infrastructure. Jeff Bezos’ astronautics company, Blue Origin, recently announced plans to build a 5,400-strong satellite megaconstellation called TeraWave, the latest to join the burgeoning ecosystem of satellite-internet
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Anon Yu Henriksen, International News Staff Writer, BA International Relations and Korean January was a busy month for South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who met with both China’s top leader Xi Jinping and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi within the span of a week. As relations between
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Kaitlyn Prince, Photographer, BA Politics and International Relations On December 28th 2025, shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar closed their businesses and began a strike that would soon spark nationwide unrest. What started as protests over the collapsing value of Iran’s currency quickly spread across all 31 provinces, with
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Huda Abukar, BA Politics and International Relations On January 18th, a US-brokered ceasefire was announced by the Syrian President, Ahmad al-Shaara, with calls to halt hostilities after consistent escalating clashes between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Defence Forces (SDF). Since the end of World War I, issues have