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By Adela Begum, BA Politics and International Relations On 11 February 2020, 17 individuals were forcibly deported by the Home Office to Jamaica. Most have lived in the UK since childhood. The flight, originally planned to carry aboard 50 deportees, was reduced in passengers as a result of a court
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By Will Durrant, BA History SOAS has named Professor Adam Habib its new Director. According to the Wits Vuvuzela, Habib has been ‘harshly criticised for his management’ of several student protests in his seven years at the South African university. We asked him what the future holds for SOAS. I’
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By Kathrine Kallehauge, BA International Relations SOAS has published its first Undergraduate Research Journal. The Journal is one of few in the UK that publishes research by an undergraduate body. The Research Journal is produced ‘for students, by students’. The Editors explain that it embraces the diverse, thought-provoking research conducted
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By Anna Fenton-Jones, BA Middle Eastern Studies Last month, a post on SOASk Me Out ‘warned’ students planning to join the UCU picket line: ‘if I cannot get into SOAS during the strikes, I will call the police.’ The post, published by the popular Facebook page on 19 January, was
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By Will Durrant, BA History and Sabrina Shah, BA International Relations Students and academic staff have launched fresh protests after new cuts to research leave and reviews of departmental budgets are announced. The latest round of protests are aimed at the School’s management body, which comprises some of the
International News
By Samia Majid, MA History Why is the small West African country known as The Gambia filing a lawsuit against Myanmar at the United Nations top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? The predominantly Muslim country filed for emerency measures against Mynamar’s military, known officially as the Tatmadaw
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By Ryan David Prosser, BA Chinese (Modern and classical) The commitment to reunite child refugees with family members living in the UK after Brexit has been dropped from the EU withdrawal bill, after MPs voted against it with 348 votes to 252. The proposals to guarantee the settlement of an
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By Will Durrant, BA History. The Students’ Union has renewed its support for the Demilitarise SOAS campaign.In a statement sent to members of the Students’ Union earlier this month, Youssra Elmagboul said that the Union finds any partnership between SOAS and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) ‘unacceptable.’ The Union
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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 Ludovica Longo, BA Geography & Politics. ‘No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer,’ but sadly that is what Newswatch presenter Samira Ahmed had to do by filing a lawsuit against the BBC in October 2019. After she became aware of Points of View presenter
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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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By Rose-Aymone Sauvage de Brante, BA English and Japanese An estimated crowd of one million people filled the streets of Tehran on 6 January, many displaying pictures of late Major General Soleimani. As Iran mourned the assassination of one of its most senior military figures, the world debated the audacity