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By Cyntheiah Siva, BA Global Liberal Arts SOASCNY party On the 7th of February the SOAS Chinese department invited us to celebrate Chinese New Year. There was great food, entertainment and everyone really committed to the theme. The performers, front of house and MC’s all incorporated red into their
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By Sasha Patel, BA History & South Asian Studies (Hindi Pathway) What did you study at SOAS, and how did your time here affect you – as a person, or in your career? I studied Music at SOAS and graduated in 2015. It was great being in such a central location
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By Dogukan Atmaca, PhD Near and Middle East Research Is the Piccadilly a line, from six to five? Get on or get off… Always, mind the gap! When there is a delay, Here is the mis-hap! Just arrived at Heathrow Home is still far away Just reaching Oakwood now Is
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Aries – #SOASkMeOut6499 Are u icing me out because mercury is in retrograde Taurus – #SOASkMeOut6491 How do you get yourself invited on the lads holiday without explicitly asking? Gemini – #SOASkMeOut6454 Conspiracy theory: SOAS Keanu Reeves is as real as the moon landing Cancer – #SOASkMeOut6481 I just wanna give a shout-out to
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By Maliha Shoaib, BA English and World Philosophies Modest Fashion is one of the latest developing movements in the fashion industry. Hafsa Lodi’s debut book, Modesty: A Fashion Paradox examines the causes, controversies and key players involved in this global market. Lodi is a journalist who has been covering
Opinion
By Joshua Mock, BA Arabic and Persian On 21 February Iranians voted in the Republic’s eleventh parliamentary elections, yielding a landslide victory for conservatives in the 290-Seat majlis. However, the country saw its lowest turn-out since the 1979 Revolution with ballot boxes being boycotted by reformists. The mass disqualification
Opinion
By Rose Sauvage de Brantes, BA English and Japanese In the past weeks, an unlikely candidate has propelled himself into solid frontrunner status among the Democrats in the U.S. presidential elections. Since his overwhelming victory in Nevada. Bernie Sanders has morphed into the most likely rival to Donald Trump
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By Samia Majid, MA History Following the Democratic Debate in Nevada on February 19, 2020, the Trump re-election campaign accused the Democratic Party of having a ‘full-scale meltdown.’ This encapsulates the general disarray of the Democratic establishment, which favours a ‘moderate’ candidate over the self-identifying democratic-socialist, Bernie Sanders, who now
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By Megan Araghi, MSc Globalisation and Development On Wednesday 12 February, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) publicly issued a list of 112 companies engaging in commercial operations in Israeli settlements. Per international law, such settlements are regarded as illegal and are largely unrecognised
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By Adela Begum, BA Politics and International Relations Tensions continue to escalate between Turkey and the Russian-backed Syrian regime after the nearly decade-long civil war in Syria is reaching its climax in the Idlib governorate. The Syrian government carried out strikes in December 2019 in the hopes of capturing the
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By Assia Hamdi- BA History and Arabic Since February 2019, millions of Algerians have been regularly protesting. To mark the one year anniversary since the uprisings began, what follows is a brief overview of Algeria’s Hirak Salmi (Peaceful Movement/Revolution), also known as the Revolution of Smiles. Despite the
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By Frances Howe, LLB A draft of the proposed Indonesian Bill known as the ‘RUU Ketahanan Keluarga’ or ‘Family Resilience Bill’ has been obtained by the Jakarta Post and released online. The Bill aims to promote the Indonesian family unit, ‘the main pillar in realising national resilience,’ by protecting it