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February 2020

Professor Adam Habib to be next SOAS Director

Professor Habib will take up the post at SOAS in January 2021. 

Watch his video message to students, alumni and staff

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2019/ 2020

2019/ 2020 Magazine now available online

Alumni magazine now available to read online

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2019/ 2020

SOAS rises in University league tables

SOAS University of London has been ranked in UK’s top twenty universities for Arts and Humanities, according to the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking. The rankings place SOAS 13th in the UK and 57th in the world, rising 4 places from 61st in 2019.

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5 February 2020

SOAS celebrates parternship with MountCrest University

SOAS Director Baroness Valerie Amos and Registrar and Secretary (Chief Operating Officer) Paula Sanderson visited Ghana to celebrate the partnership between SOAS University of London and MountCrest University College (MCU), Ghana.

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10 January - 20 March

Multiple exhibitions at the SOAS Brunei Gallery

From January to March, the Brunei Gallery will be showcasing four different exhibitions

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17 March 2020

Artist talk series: Yinka Shonibare in Conversation with Gus Casely-Hayford

Yinka Shonibare, CBE, and Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford SOAS alumnus and Director of Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, will discuss Shonibare’s career path as an artist and current projects—both in the UK and internationally.

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20 April 2020

Alumni book club: 'Modesty a Fashion Paradox' 

The next book to be covered by the SOAS alumni book club will be 'Modesty: A Fashion Paradox', by alumna Hafsa Lodi (MA Islamic Law 2015). 6:30- 8:30pm in Room RG01, Main SOAS Building. Entry free and all welcome.

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17 March

China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order

Talk by Professor Wang Gungwu (National University of Singapore). China Reconnects seeks to explain what China is doing and what its immediate and long-term interests are.

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Among the different institutions I have attended, this is the one I am proud of saying it is my alma mater because it is somewhere I really learnt something new rather than just expand on my high school knowledge. (...) I have moved out and about between different countries and (...) I have met alumni in unexpected places.

Charles Lor (MSc Violence, Conflict, and Development; 2002) 

 

 

Quite Ironically, I came into SOAS wanting to qualify in the bar and go into human rights, I came out understanding the world functions around economic development and I could work in the corporate world and yet be an instrument of change. I began to understand that it is better to be within the system and create progress rather than against it.

Nimisha Sara Philip (LLB, 2015)

 

 

 

I have been lucky to be able to put to use both my practical training as an economist and the regional focus on the Middle East in my career. For instance, with the Aga Khan Development Network, I worked in Syria for over a year, and in Canada’s Foreign Service, I have served in Ramallah. In my current role in Washington, I get to focus more on economic issues, both in the US and as they apply to international development.

Hussein Hirji (Development Economics, 2007)

 

 

 

SOAS challenges you on what you think you already know – we all have countries that we might defend or not defend – but then you meet people who may be from those regions who tell you how it is really on the ground. The different views and perspectives is a huge strength. I’d give SOAS a ten out of ten. It’s a great place to be. It’s also a very friendly and welcoming, and you settle in very quickly.

Nicholas Oniwon, MA International Studies and Diplomacy, 2013

 

 

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