Decolonising Elephants: Animals and the End of Empire in Myanmar A seminar on how elephants experienced decolonisation in Myanmar.
Is disability a barrier to higher education? Digital Ambassador Amna Shuja knew she found certain aspects of academic work more difficult. Having gained support from the SOAS Disability and Neurodiversity Team, she asks the question 'Is disability a barrier to higher education?'.
Careers: "As a High Commissioner no two days are the same!" Having grown up in a multi-cultural family in the UAE, Omar Daair knew he wanted his future career to have an international angle. Discover how his studies at lead him to his role of High Commissioner to Rwanda.
Professor Annabelle Sreberny: 5 September 1949 - 30 December 2022 It is with tremendous sadness that we have learnt of the untimely death of Professor Annabelle Sreberny, Emeritus Professor at the SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications. Professor Sreberny was one of the founding members and the first Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS.
Woman, life, freedom: How a fight for women’s rights is uniting a nation In September, Mahsa Amini is taken by the morality police. She will never be released and will die of a heart attack while in custody. What ensues is a cultural and ideological protest with the potential of reshaping modern Iran.
SOAS in the Media: 20 Dec - 2 Jan Highlights of SOAS media appearances from the final two weeks of 2022.
New book series on 'Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa' This new book series, published by Bloomsbury Academic, is the first scholarly series that engages with a de-colonial, non-Euro centric approach to addressing the relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the perspective of key actors and states in the region, and its peoples.
Revolutionary Art and Politics in Egypt: Liminal Spaces and Cultural Production After 2011 This book examines the role of artists in Egypt during the 2011 revolution, when street art from graffiti to political murals became ubiquitous facets of revolutionary spaces.
Translating the Avesta: The Avestan and Pahlavi Versions of the Hōm Yasht Using digital tools to produce a new edition of the Pahlavi Yasna, chapters 9–11.