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Important February UGM Motions

Important February UGM Motions

The next SOAS Students Union General Meeting (UGM) is set for Tuesday 17th February. There are two motions here which focus on some of the most heated debates in the past few weeks: the format of UGMs and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. For your convenience, you can

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

Bleak winter for refugees in the Middle East

Bleak winter for refugees in the Middle East

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Last winter saw the Middle East coated in an unprecedented amount of snow. Social media was flooded with images of snow-fights at the Dome of the Rock, with major cities like Cairo covered in snow for the first time in a hundred years. Many

Ex-Foreign Office official calls for pressure on Israel-Palestine solution

Ex-Foreign Office official calls for pressure on Israel-Palestine solution

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish “I believe firmly in the two-state solution,” began Sir Vincent Fean, ex-Consul General to Jerusalem, although, he continued, it “is in very severe danger of disappearing before our eyes.” The London Middle East Institute holds talks every Tuesday evening that seem to attract people

The North East ‘Declares War’ on Bus Companies

The North East ‘Declares War’ on Bus Companies

Jonny Morrison, BA Chinese (Modern and Classical) The North East Combined Authority’s (NECA) attempts to gain control of bus routes in the region “represents a declaration of war … on the bus companies”, according to Sunderland Conservative opposition leader, Peter Wood. The NECA is the strategic authority formed last year