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By Amelia Casey-Rerhaye, BA Arabic I think it is safe to say that autumn has hit us. This is the best time of the year in my opinion, with the most heart-warming and cosy foods. And what doesn’t scream golden leaves and crisp cold nights like some
dis-orient society
By Hala Haidar, BA Global Development SOAS dis-Orient Society Dis-Orient is a society that aims to uplift the voices and create a community for East and South-East Asians (ESEA) at SOAS (but all are welcome!). We are both a social and political society, aiming to create a
soas history
By Millie Glaister, BA Politics and International Relations In setting out to write this article, and reflect on the Spirit as a society, I went back and looked through as many of the old issues as I could find. While the Spirit has maintained a presence on campus since 1936,
Sport and Societies
By James Ethan Byrne, BA Global Development Studies & Economics FIFA’s scandals have been widely publicised. But, even if you’re unaware of the fraud and money laundering of 2015 within the organisation, you are likely to have heard about at least one of the controversies surrounding this year’
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Daphne Saunders, BA second year Global Liberal Arts Decolonial strugggles, inter-cultural dialogue, and social justice are all issues that have long been the common calling of Soasians, and what has brought ambitious free thinking students flooding through its doors from around the world. Yet many students say that the
Britain
Written by Ianto Griffin, BA in Music and Anthropology It’s disabusing us of the crazy notion that we have a right to our youth, and this is seriously fucking dangerous. I’m sitting, holding my keys in my hand, they are a comfort that I haven’t felt in
democrats
Written by Sam Landis, BA Social Anthropology and International Relations ‘A party which sustains supremacy by lying to the public and mob-ilising voters based on a platform that offers false hope and maliciously harvests trust from society’s most oppressed…does not deserve my support.’ Travelling back home to
Lilli Hill, BA Music and World Philosophies “The single honours BA Africa and Black Diaspora studies programme has been scrapped, undermining the very name “School of Oriental and African Studies.” In front of me a santur is placed, and I am asked to make a sound. I’m not quite
neom
Angus Robins (MSC Politics of the Middle East) ‘’This is a much-needed investment into Saudi’s bleak economic forecast; poor innovation and, graduate employment rates have resulted in a drastically underdeveloped private sector.’’ Saudi Arabia has recently released concept art for their new mega-project NEOM: The Line. At
Sam Landis, BA Social Anthropology & International Relations Since the onset of term on 26 September, SOAS management, under the direction of Adam Habib, has suppressed freedoms of expression, assembly and protest guaranteed to students and workers. The authoritative tactics adopted this year follow i those taken during of the
Opinion
By Josephine Aitken, BA Social Anthropology When we hear the word ‘war’ we try to draw on our pre-existing knowledge of it, usually of the World Wars we learnt of in school, or conflicts in ‘developing’ countries. From media consumption, the image we construct of Ukraine prior is of
Iran
By Hiba Ul-Hasan (BA History) and, Unzeela Manzoor (BA Politics and International Relations) Hiba: It would seem evident that, given the circumstances of her killing, and Iranian laws that violate UN human rights rules, there should be a focus on condemning and holding the Iranian regime responsible? The news