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When I saw Luke McManus’ piece, Does the Political Correctness of Students’ Unions Undermine their Decisions? in the online edition of the SOAS Spirit, I almost stopped reading there and then. The juxtaposition of an attack on the ‘Political Correctness’ of unions with a picture of the train tracks at
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Luke McManus, BA Arabic and Social Anthropology On the 1st of December, the World Food Program (WFP) was forced to suspend its food aid scheme for more than 1.6 million Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis, citing the need for an extra $64m before the operation could be
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Clare Birkett, MSc Environment, Politics and Development Last Friday, SOAS students joined around 200 people in central London at a protest against rocketing energy prices and their devastating effects on students, pensioners and other vulnerable groups. The protest was timed to coincide with the release of a government report which
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Tom King, BA Politics Former SOAS Student Ghoncheh Ghavami has been released on bailing while she awaits a Court of Appeal hearing. Last month her lawyer claimed to have seen legal papers stating she had been found guilty of the charge of propaganda against the state and was to be
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The SOAS Spirit is hosting a training day this Saturday, the 25th of October.The Talk segment commences from 11am until 12.30pm, it will be held in G3. Following the talk are classroom based training sessions led by editors from the SOAS Spirit on writing features, news, sub editing,
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By Anonymous “So what did he mean by comparing essay writing to the plot of Clueless?” I have a friend who once went to her personal tutor for essay writing tips. “What’s your favourite rom-com?” He asked. “Clueless” she replied, without missing a beat (this is why we’re
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By Honor Bulmer, BA Study of Religions It is the people that make SOAS the unique place it is. People we might interact with daily without really knowing their stories. In this issue we talk to Joe Burridge, the manager of SOAS’ very own bookshop. The onslaught of the online
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[Remy Geoffroy – Kathmandu, Nepal – published Feb ’14] Keeping up a tradition of political inefficiency and stagnation, the current Constituent Assembly of Nepal, elected just over two months ago, is at a relative standstill. All agree that so far, the second round of elections has been more transparent than that of
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[Carrie Benjamin – Barcelona, Spain – published Sept ’13] As the summer comes to an end, Spain’s autonomous region of Catalonia is courting greater domestic and international support for an independence referendum in 2014. Although the Catalan independence movement has its roots in the early XX century, public support has significantly
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By Mohammad Tahboub, Editor After 2 years of progress will you let your SOAS Spirit crumble? Will you SOAS student let the platform made to protect your free speech fail? We are fighting a battle 2 years after the union censored the former SOAS Spirit and prevented it from publishing
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Charles Brook (BA Politics and Arabic) SOAS students run campaign in south London promoting healthy relationships and providing support for victims of domestic violence Team V is a national network of young people changing the world, one community actions project at a time! Over the course of the year Team
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“This is not a company, it is a university. We are not clients, we are students,” METU students in Ankara. Students of the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara, have taken matters into their own hands after government-sponsored construction workers deforested several trees in the university fields in the hope