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Nikheel Gorolay, MA Intensive South Asian Studies Freshers can be a strange time. You’ve spent a week settling into your new digs, getting to know people and making friends, and perhaps even spending several nights moving your feet on a sticky dancefloor. And then you come across that reading
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Feeling sick of SOAS already? Is the weather today suspiciously nice? Want something a little different from the SOAS Freshers’ schedule? The SOAS Sprit team takes you on a little tour of London. In an attempt to improve the state of my soul and inner being, I’ve made it
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Caitlin Shewell-Cooper, BA Swahili and English One of the best things about uni, and SOAS in particular, is that the student body includes and welcomes the full spectrum of religious and non-religious backgrounds and faiths. This creates open discussion, which is both incredibly liberating and definitely challenging. Many classes, if
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Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Living in Dinwiddy last year, I walked to Russell Square everyday through a, I’m sure, familiar route to the readers of this paper. After a too-early morning walk through our local graveyard-turned-park, I would arrive onto the street adjacent to the Brunswick Centre.
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Ella Linskens, BA Arabic Coupled with the stress of first year and adjusting to university getting takeaways and eating out become all the more appealing. This not only is the more expensive way to go, it is also almost always unhealthier. The best advice I can give you to avoiding
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Luciano Figari, MSc Finance & Development and Carolynn Look, BA Chinese & Development Studies The relationship between Argentina and the UK has not always been an easy one. For Argentineans it is hard to forget the occupation of the Malvinas (also known as the Falkland Islands), an archipelago located at
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Jonathan Galton, MA Social Anthropology Initially, all I knew about Nunhead was that it was somewhere in South East London and that it was a bedfellow to unlikely-sounding places like Brockley and Hither Green. Since I moved to Peckham a few months ago, however, Nunhead has leapt off the map
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Paloma Rao, LLB Law ‘I might be forty but that makes even me giggle,’ chuckled an elegant looking woman to her friend at a video of two elephants mating. I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting to find in this sexhibition at the Wellcome Collection in Euston, but
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Lucy Warden, MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies With its pastel coloured buildings, grand Victorian pubs and leafy streets, it certainly looks like a neater, better kempt version of Camden. Some could be seduced into thinking that Kentish Town is just another area of North London succumbed to gentrification. However
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Carolynn Look, BA Chinese & Development Studies An increasingly predictable conversation takes place each time I tell people where I live. Oh wow, Kennington? No no, it’s Canning Town. You know, just beyond Canary Wharf? At this point I receive either a judgemental look because ‘I’m one of
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Kevin Quigley, BA Linguistics and Japanese Studies The season starts with the introduction of winter-flavored lattes at Starbucks, and usually ends with me bent over a basement toilet with a glass of imitation champagne sloshing onto the floor as Auld Lang Syne chimes in the background. Needless to say, I’
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Photo: Razvan Danaila Daniel Avis As Arifa took to the stage at the Purcell Room in London, there was an inescapable sense of anticipation among the audience. This was the band’s first foray into London, and it came on November 18th, as part of this year’s London Jazz