Resource-poor countries are facing an “extinction-level threat” for journalism. Could public subsidy be a solution to supporting global media?
Clubhouse is a new social-media audio-only app – which you can only join through an invite. But how is it making waves in the Middle East?
Professor Muhammed Abdel Haleem discusses Ramadan, the Qur’an, and Covid-19.
As we look to understand and respond to the crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, feminist perspectives will be key in shaping a better world.
More than a century since the first International Women’s Day, we are still talking about women – and still tackling gender inequality.
The public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly translated into an economic and social crisis, both locally and globally.
How are some countries using the Covid-19 vaccine to increase their power and global status? Is the vaccine now the ultimate negotiation tool?
The pandemic has been especially difficult for PhD students – yet they have received little guidance or support from the UK government.
What is vaccine nationalism – and how does it impact global (in)equality? Discover what ‘vaccine apartheid’ really is.
How has the way we talk about climate change, changed? And how is it discussed by various media outlets? Maxine Betteridge-Moes explores.
The recent ‘Future of Cities Summit’ explored what cities may look like after Covid – and whether they will change forever.
Lizzie Frost speaks to freshers about their time at SOAS so far, discussing online learning, making friends and SOAS societies.
Patriarchal history has named and categorised women in various ways. One such categorisation is ‘Asati’, which means one who is not a ‘Sati’. According to
Since the signing of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, the nearly 1,800-kilometre border between Nepal and India has served as an open
Post-Covid-19 world and its implications in achieving inclusive and sustainable development and industrialisation to meet the 2030 SDGs.
At no other time in contemporary history has a critical understanding of communication and the structures and regulation of complex media systems been more important
An assessment of the significant negative impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the social care sector in the UK.
How have the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund (IMF) responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and associated financial crisis?
Protect yourself, your university and the wider community – remember ‘Hands. Face. Space’.
Two current SOAS students talk about studying in lockdown, making friends online, and what advice they have for new students this September.
Against the backdrop of Covid-19 and Trump, are relations between America and China at an all-time low? We ask Professor Steve Tsang.
Do you feel strongly about social justice? Are you passionate about a cause? An inter-disciplinary studies approach could be the answer.
Gain an insight into approaches and policies used by South Asia’s women leaders, how they manage disasters and gender equality amidst Covid.
Why are women in Nigeria more negatively affected by Covid-19?
Minna graduated from SOAS’s Centre for Gender Studies and is now classed as one of the leading black feminist activists in the UK.
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a new factor that will have lasting policy consequences over the regulation of international trade and foreign direct investment
… by 2030 global trade may have been revolutionised to comprise something closer to a global matrix of artificial-intelligence-driven, digital-currency-supported, and SME-sales dominated trade.
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We
We interrogate the past in order to illuminate the present, and the study of modern Chinese history should help us to understand the present condition
On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd, 46, was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. George Floyd is just the latest in a long list of
Post-Brexit relations with Africa: why the UK needs to act.
The demand for national leadership to unite a clearly passionate and divided United States could not be higher, but President Donald Trump is instead adopting
Covid-19 will cause serious issues for Latin American companies.
Amidst the Covid-19 crisis, SOAS students’ SCRAP Weapons group call for freeze on weapons supply.
The current crisis should be used as a basis to rebuild and strengthen solidarity between people and nations.
The rapid rise in Brazil’s Covid-19 cases is a direct result of the president’s actions.
Two SOAS academics discuss Covid-19, law and gender.
“Why are firms struggling with the pandemic’s disruption still so focused on distributing profits to shareholders?”
How is Covid-19 impacting a nation still recovering from the 2015 earthquakes?
“It would be a tragedy if, post-COVID-19 crisis, the previous unjust global economic order was simply restored.”
Could the coronavirus pandemic lead to a rise in falsified medicines?
What does this global health emergency mean for the world’s economy?
Covid-19, the oil industry, and wider economic effects.
Dr. Joanne Tomkinson explores Covid-19’s effect on African architecture.
How is Covid-19 impacting Europe’s current and future interactions with China?
With schools closed and many children without internet or electricity at home, the social divide is apparent.
Mark Hobart reflects on what the media tells us about the Covid-19 crisis.
Are world leaders taking a global view of the coronavirus pandemic? Or are they the blind leading the blind?
“Covid-19 campaigns across Africa respond to another key aspect of African societies: multilingualism.
