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Written by Ava Bland, BA Politics & International Relations. Allow me to paint a picture for you. I am at the London Green Party conference in 2025, and after many panel discussions, the Q&A begins. A woman stands up and emotionally delivers her gratitude to Zack Polanski, leader
Artemis Sianni-Wedderburn, BA (Hons) Arabic and Politics Social media has seeped into every aspect of life, including conflict. The Russian/ Ukrainian war, which started on 24 February 2022, has been branded the ‘World’s first TikTok war’, with an almost ceaseless flow of content surrounding the crisis. Four days
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By Drago Nuić, BA International Relations The future of agriculture can be found 33 metres below Clapham, or so claims Growing Underground, the agricultural retail brand of Zero Carbon Farms launched in 2015 by co-founders Richard Ballard and Steve Dring. Located in a deserted World War Two air red
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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
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By Naaz Hussein, BA Politics and International Relations A discussion with Dr. Dooling: Education and action does not end in October. Black History Month was initiated in 1969 in the United States, permeating into a yearly tradition to celebrate black achievement and recognise the systemic oppression faced by Black individuals
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Imaan Khan, BA Social Anthropology and Politics These athletes contribute to the success of their respective teams and the spirit of SOAS both on and off the field, taking pride in stepping onto the court wearing the black and yellow colors of the SOAS warriors. The topic of Muslim women
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Kai Jie Cai, MA Postcolonial Studies “Swing Patrol […] isn’t just an erasure of Black history it is an erasure of what London looks like today.” Swing dance emerged within the African American community alongside Jazz during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance era. Since the black body was excluded from the
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In conversation with Yijia This series seeks to highlight the talent and stories of women musicians of colour at SOAS. Sasha Patel, BA History and South Asian Studies (Hindi Pathway) Tell us about yourself, what do you play? I’m Yijia, a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. I prefer to use
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By Fisayo Eniolorunda, BA Politics & African Studies I remember getting up at 7 A.M. as a teenager doing my GCSE’s, which at the time felt like the most tiresome quest of all. A sequence that often began with me groaning at the piercing sound of my alarm
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By Rose Sauvage de Brantes, BA English and Japanese “What can a group of children possibly know about science?”- “Speeches are nice but it won’t help to change the world. Go back to school.” and “It’s too late now”. Those are the comments one can frequently find under
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By Yasmin Elsouda, BA International Relations The world watched in shock as a landscape larger than Belgium caught fire across New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. 80 people were killed not far from there in Indonesia, by flooding and landslides, the worst the country has seen since 2007. East
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Rihab Attioui, MA Postcolonial Studies Rating: 3.9/5 From the over-saturated and over-decade long reign of the superhero genre emerges: ‘Joker’. Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’ is a film that, for many die-hard fans, signals a long-awaited (and somewhat holier-than-thou) return to the niche sub-