Music, charity, activism, sport, law, journalism… here’s a rundown of a few of SOAS’s most famous alumni making waves across sectors.
Digital Ambassador Sinem shares her reflections on her second year at SOAS, including some key advice for students currently finishing their first year.
Writing and submitting your UCAS application can be daunting and stressful. Check out our tips to make sure you write a winning application.
The SOAS blog is a place for students, alumni and academics to share their SOAS experiences and weigh in on some of the most important issues in the world today.
BA Creative Arts is one of SOAS’ newest programmes, where students delve into a range of arts from Africa, Asia and Middle East.
Join a programme of virtual events exploring decolonising knowledge at the SOAS Festival of Ideas.
Find out more about language activism at the SOAS Webinar: Promoting Your Language on Social Media.
What is a Foundation Year and who is it for? Student Dilzat Turdi describes his Foundation Year experience.
Alice Ede joined SOAS via Clearing to study BA Arabic and Islamic Studies.
How are campus-based lecturers and students adapting to teaching online, as the new ‘norm’?
A week of films delve into the ‘diversity, nuance and subjective experience within migration’.
A safe space for students to talk about, bring awareness of, and highlight the voice of Kashmiris.
The report of a conversation on decolonising research started at SOAS University of London.
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal.
I got interested in Assyriology because I was fascinated by the many ‘firsts’ [world’s first civilizations, writing systems, literary texts]
A brief guide to a practice that sits at the heart of Japanese life.
A brief guide for interpreting the rich symbolism in manga storytelling.
Although SOAS lawyers do rank among the country’s top earners.
Koyanagi Tanekuni, the lacquer artist, learnt his art “under three holders of the title Ningen Kokuhō (Living National Treasure)”
When I was a kid, I saw Elvis on TV in Detroit and thought, “I will be like him.”
The majority of teachers will, at some point in their career, be teaching in a multilingual, multicultural school.
Multilingual Locals & Significant Geographies (Mulosige) is a five-year project to explore new approaches to world literature.
Think you know all about climate change? Take our quiz to find out just how clued up you really are.
SOAS alumna Sharifah Alhinai talks about Sekka Magazine.
MA Translation students Luna Chiaverini and Megumi Sakata discuss video game localization and International Women’s Day protests.
Art Breath founder Nour Saleh shows how the arts can convey powerful messages about identity and politics.
Over 150 film posters are displayed in the exhibition Africa Gaze in the Brunei Gallery.
Test your knowledge of Christmas traditions in this fun festive quiz.
Ella Al-Shamahi joins an MBI Al Jaber expedition to the island of Socotra.
Test your knowledge of recent world events with the SOAS Topical News Quiz.
The London Korean Film Festival kicks off on 1 November.
The K-Music Festival 2018 at London’s Southbank runs until 20 November.
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
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair runs from 4-7 October
Think you know your way around SOAS? Take this fun quiz to find out.
The study of politics is vast and the identification of a canon of key texts is itself a politically loaded act.
Dr Nimer Sultany has been awarded the Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship
Student experience is more nuanced than the Gold, Silver and Bronze ratings of TEF suggest.
Test your knowledge of recent world events with the SOAS Topical News Quiz.
Dr Christopher Lucas explains how attitudes can get transferred onto language.
A quiz to celebrate the achievements of some of SOAS’s Honorary Fellows and Honorary Graduates.
“I recommend acquainting yourself early on with some of the major controversies in the field of linguistics…then… investigate two of the most fascinating questions in language: why do languages change, and how does the language you speak influence the way you think?”
