Black History Month 2020
‘For Hooyo and Abo… Mainly Hooyo’
“Born in a little village, my parents made pilgrimage…”
27th October 2020
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“Born in a little village, my parents made pilgrimage…”
Progressive modern Urdu poetry that feels relevant in today’s climate.
Celebrating linguistic diversity through poetic expression.
Take the SOAS BHM Literary Quiz to find out if you know your Linton Kwesi Johnson from your Phillis Wheatley.
Check out the calendar of BHM events happening around the capital
Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore is celebrated by a bust in Gordon Square.
To mark National Poetry Day, Southbank Centre launches a major new project to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages.
Around eighty years ago, Walter Simon fled Germany to come to the UK, where he took up a post as a lecturer at the School of Oriental Studies.
Tamim Al-Barghouti, one of the most important and popular Arab poets of his generation, is at SOAS on 26-27 June
The 15th World Music Summer School opens on Monday 19 June 2017 with a programme of musical traditions from around the world.
Find out what our students, academics and friends are reading in today’s top 50 list for world book day
Why should humans bother to learn another language; can a translation system, however sophisticated, replace human beings?
A packed lecture theatre within the walls of SOAS University of London can hardly be described as a “tough room” for Wole Soyinka – the