culture
Bollywood’s Islamophobia Problem
... the division of the subcontinent by the British on the basis of majority religion has had a deep influence on regional politics and society up until the present day.
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culture
Promoting Palestinian Arts Overseas at The London Palestine Film Festival
Cultural resistance plays an important role in reminding the world of our existence, our history and Palestine's bright potential future, if it were freed from occupation and apartheid.
Newsletters
Newsletter 24/01/2025
SOASMUN 2025: A Groundbreaking Start for SOAS’ First MUN Conference By Kristi Greenwood, BA Japanese, International News Editor The inaugural SOAS Model United Nations (MUN), held from the 17th to the 19th of January 2025, brought together over 90 delegates from 18 different universities worldwide for a weekend of thought-provoking
Columns
The Fine Print: The bizarre world of Speaker’s Corner
By Roxanna Brealey, Senior Sub-Editor, BA History and Politics George Orwell claimed in 1945 that Speaker’s Corner, which is located just outside Marble Arch tube station, has a ‘large variety of plain lunatics’, and for the most part, it is tough to disagree with him. The average Londoner will
Columns
Roaming Reporter: Housmans - The Importance of Radical Bookselling
By Jacob Winter, Senior Staff Writer, BA Politics and International Relations Housmans Bookshop is one of the few outwardly political and left-wing bookshops left in London. Situated on 5 Caledonian Road, very close to Dinwiddy House and Kings Cross Station, the bookshop has been nestled there for over 50 years.
Columns
Editor's Note: Issue 30
By Barty Roberts, Editor-In-Chief, BA Politics and International Relations The low-income bursary at SOAS is £1,500 per year, £4,500 per whole undergraduate degree. An amount that has not changed since 2021. As per the Bank of England inflation calculator, £1,500 in September 2021 is now worth £1,
Opinion
Activism at SOAS faces an Antisemitism Issue, and We Need to Address It
By Anonymous SOAS has always been a radical place for organising, for community and most importantly a place where I felt comfortable standing up for Palestine. It has also been a space where certain groups have failed to address antisemitism to the point where they have allowed it to become
News
The SOAS Liberated Zone: 200 Days Later
Barty Roberts, Editor-in-Chief, BA Politics and International Relations The SOAS Liberated Zone has now existed for 200 days. In that time, it has had three locations, gone from over 100 members to less than 20, been raided by the police, been served multiple court orders and hosted a man wearing
National News
The Next Four Years of the ‘Special Relationship’
'For the UK, Trump's victory raises questions about the future of the “special relationship” between the two nations.'
Anima
The Works of Rani Sharabati: Israeli Settler Colonialism and Palestine
"his work transgresses localised boundaries whether geographical or ideological, and this deliberate ambiguity allows Palestinian viewers to interpret his work in line with their own experience of displacement and spatial domination born from the occupation"
Anima
Lee Jong-pil’s Escape: No End to Capitalism
"Despite the film being introduced as a drama/action, Escape played out as an absurdist horror, peppered with strategic moments of comic relief"
Anima
25 Years Since the Introduction of Tuition Fees - A Retrospective
"Mandy Telford, opposing the top-up of tuition fees, warned that the top-up would be a ‘disaster for higher education’... But several years later in 2007, Blair… stated that ‘the worries about tuition fees turned out to be misplaced"