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We Need To Talk About Modi

We Need To Talk About Modi

Sparsh Pandya, BA International Relations and South Asian Studies The past year and a half of Narendra Modi’s term as prime minister of India has marked a clear push towards neo-liberal economic policy and an attempt to establish India as a powerful global actor. Within the domestic sphere, welfare

Turbulent Times Await, as Turkey Heads Toward Re-Elections

Turbulent Times Await, as Turkey Heads Toward Re-Elections

Anonymous On 7th June Turkey elected its 550 members of parliament, the 25th in the history of the Republic. The general elections, for the first time in Turkish history, triumphed and gave Kurdish and minority citizens a voice in parliament. HDP (The People’s Democratic Party), a conglomeration of Kurdish

Is Amman really that boring?

Is Amman really that boring?

Ammanymous Once known as Philadelphia in Hellenistic times, Amman is the capital that was not supposed to be the capital of a country that was not supposed to be a country. Its history has always been shaped by wider events in the region, including the acceptance of waves of refugees

'I Would Rather Die Than Stay In Turkey'

'I Would Rather Die Than Stay In Turkey'

This is what one of my Syrian friends told me as he waited for a smuggler to take him to Greece. This is a personal report of life against the odds in Turkey. This article is anonymously written and all names have been changed. The hotel room’s air conditioning

The reality behind the Kurdish peace process

The reality behind the Kurdish peace process

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish “We will fire bullets on you if you throw stones at us”, police officers in Cizre were quoted saying to local children. Cizre, a town located on the Syrian-Turkish border, has experienced a haze of tear gas and live ammunition over the past few

Credit: Himasha Weera

University bosses attack tuition fee cut proposal as "implausible"

SOAS Students took a stand for free education at a recent demonstration by creating a wall of books at the march • Credit – Himasha Weera Tom King, BA Politics University bosses have criticised plans likely to be set out by the Labour Party which would see tuition fees at English universities

Boko Haram terror rages on in Nigeria

Boko Haram terror rages on in Nigeria

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Though the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which followed the abduction of about 300 schoolgirls from Chibok in Nigeria’s northeast, may have spread rapidly across social media and permeated television networks, sooner or later news of Boko Haram dropped off the radar. 219 of Chibok’s