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Written by Manal Husain, BA Politics and International Relations. Turnitin is an academic integrity service used by SOAS and 98% of universities in the UK, according to UniCompare. The company has faced severe backlash since July 2026, when it attempted to update its End-User License Agreement (EULA) to allow
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Written by Anya Shah, BA Politics and International Relations. Once ranked as one of the best universities in the country, SOAS University of London has faced a rapid decline over the past 20 years in national league tables. Its latest results raise serious questions about where the university is headed.
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Written by Anna Hamerow, SOAS News Section Editor, BA International Relations. On 18 September, a jury at the Old Bailey unanimously found former SOAS student Sarah Cotte not guilty of expressing support for Hamas during a speech made outside the university in 2023. The charges against her were Count 1,
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Written by Roxanna Brealey, Editor-in-Chief, BA History and Politics. From March 10-11th, academic and non-academic support staff took part in UNISON strikes across campus. 85.5% of SOAS UNISON members were in favour of strike action, protesting the 1.4% national pay increase for the higher
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Salsabeel Yasir, BA History and International Relations While Gaza faces mass starvation, continued bombardment, and constant displacement despite a supposed ceasefire, a neo-colonial governing structure has emerged to oversee its ‘reconstruction.’ This has been designed by many of the same Western political and corporate elites who denied or downplayed
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Rachel Tay, MA Middle Eastern Studies Slowly but surely, the skies above us are becoming the new frontier of contestation for digital infrastructure. Jeff Bezos’ astronautics company, Blue Origin, recently announced plans to build a 5,400-strong satellite megaconstellation called TeraWave, the latest to join the burgeoning ecosystem of
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Anon Yu Henriksen, International News Staff Writer, BA International Relations and Korean January was a busy month for South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who met with both China’s top leader Xi Jinping and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi within the span of a week. As relations between
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Kaitlyn Prince, Photographer, BA Politics and International Relations On December 28th 2025, shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar closed their businesses and began a strike that would soon spark nationwide unrest. What started as protests over the collapsing value of Iran’s currency quickly spread across all 31 provinces, with
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Huda Abukar, BA Politics and International Relations On January 18th, a US-brokered ceasefire was announced by the Syrian President, Ahmad al-Shaara, with calls to halt hostilities after consistent escalating clashes between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Defence Forces (SDF). Since the end of World War
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Ayah Abu Mraheel, BA History and Politics It seems Donald Trump’s new year's resolution for 2026 is expansionism. Three days into the new year, Operation Absolute Resolve saw the United States (US) carry out a military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture and removal of
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Siddhant Pawar, BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics One of the world’s most widely used social media platforms, X, has come under scrutiny in recent weeks following the illicit use of its AI model, Grok, to undress and create pornographic deepfake images of women and children. Ofcom, the UK’s
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By Anya Shah, BA Politics and International Relations In January 2026, the UK government found itself entangled in a growing transatlantic dispute after President Donald Trump pressured Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, to become part of the United States. This statement created an uproar across