Ilana Webster-Kogen is an ethnomusicologist by training, specializing in music, diaspora and ethnicity in the urban Middle East. She was appointed the Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music in 2014, ...

Dr Richard Williams, Reader in Music and South Asian Studies, was guest faculty at the Rajasthani Bhasha Academy summer school in July 2025. The Academy is dedicated to promoting research and training ...

Our Scholar Spotlight focuses on Jane Wanjiru Ndirangu, a Dr Mai Yamani Scholar, a first-generation university student who came to London from Kenya to pursue an MSc in Environment, Politics and ...

The SOAS Department of Media Studies, in collaboration with Al Jazeera and the SOAS Islaah student society, is hosting a public talk with Wael Al Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s Bureau Chief in Gaza. Al Dahdouh ...

Asylum accommodation is a political battleground: drawing on his research in Italy, Dr Paolo Novak shows how the UK’s case reveals that it is never just about housing, but about power, inequality, and ...

In recent days, there has been commentary, particularly on social media, regarding a decision at SOAS involving the expulsion of a small number of students. Some have alleged that these expulsions ...

SOAS University of London will award honorary degrees to eight distinguished individuals at this year’s graduation ceremonies. The awardees include economist Gary Stevenson; development practitioner ...

Now open at the SOAS Gallery, “After the Assembly: Constituting India” commemorates 75 years of the Indian Constitution - the longest living constitution in the global South. It tells the story of how ...

Natasja is a BA Japanese and History of Art student on her year abroad studying in Tokyo, Japan. Now starting her final term, she puts forward her top five strategies to make meaningful friendships in ...

The SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) exists to promote the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies in relation to Africa, ...

SOAS University of London President Zeinab Badawi marked the launch of Humanitarian Action for Sudan (HAS) at SOAS, an initiative created to address the crisis in Sudan and improve humanitarian ...

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