SOAS in the Media: 10 -16 January

Expert comment on global news topics from the past week

  • Adam Habib writes about rethinking university partnerships and international fees for International Higher Education Global Issues Magazine which is republished by University World News.
  • Arshin Adib-Moghaddam comments that Iranian universities offering to host Afghan women will increase the flow of Afghan refugees into the country as the Taliban ban women from higher education for Times Higher Education. 
  • Dan Plesch spoke to Sky News about the execution of British-Iranian, Alireza Akbari and the diplomatic issues between the UK and Iran including the cutting of BBC Persia.
  • Steve Tsang comments on Xi Jinping's appointment of historian Gao Xiang as president at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Cass) and secretary of the Communist party for The Guardian. 
  • Steve Tsang comments on UK-China relations for Ming Pao. 
  • Stephen Chan comments on China's influence in Africa and the battle for international influence and investment in the region from China, Russia, the Gulf and the West for The Times. 
  • Stephen Chan comments that Zimbabwe's middle-class economy ambitions are a distant reality as covered by Mail & Guardian, The Business Gazette Online and Banoyi.
  • Sarah Parsons spoke to BBC World Service's World Business Report about Japan's trade relations and the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida's recent visit to the UK to meet Rishi Sunak about the countries' new defence agreement.
  • Phil Clark comments on Rwanda's increasing role in peacekeeping across Africa for Courrier International.
  • Pallavi Roy discusses the role of SMEs in accelerating inclusive economic growth in Nepal on the Policy Entrepreneurs Inc. podcast. 
  • Subir Sinha writes for Outlook India about how revulsion for human beings of certain races, castes and classes and avocations comes from conservatism and rightwing thinking.
  • Ulrich Volz speaks at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) launch of its Sustainable Central Banking (SCB) Strategy as covered by Business Mirror and Daily Guardian.
  • Coverage of Ida Hadjivayanis's translation of Abdurazak Gurnah's Novel Paradise into Swahili by Brittlepaper and Media Reportage Ng. 
  • Charles Tripp joins the 2023 British Academy Book Prize jury as prize opens for submissions.
  • Mario Arulthas, PhD candidate, comments on Canada sanctioning ex-Sri Lanka presidents Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for Al Jazeera. 
  • Duncan Bartlett discusses the significance of a meeting between the British and Japanese Prime Ministers on BBC World Service.
  • Duncan Bartlett explains the significance of trips by the Japanese Prime Minister to Paris, Rome, Berlin, London, Ottawa and Washington for Japan Forward. 
  • Duncan Bartlett writes about why NASA sees Japan as a crucial partner on its missions to the Moon and Mars for Japan Forward.
  • Colin Shindler reviews Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity by Daniel Aschheim for The Jewish Chronicle. 
  • Research Professional covers the launch of SOAS's new research centre on AI: The SOAS Centre for AI Futures. 
  • SOAS Detainee Support is named as one of The Big Issue's Changemakers of 2023. 

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