Banaras, or Varanasi, in north India, is widely known as a Hindu pilgrimage city where devout pilgrims aspire to visit its temples or be cremated on the famous stepped terraces, or ghats, beside the ...

Christopher Cooper-Davies is a historian of the politics, culture and society of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on the Shi'i communities of the Ottoman Empire and its successor state's ...

The Senate at SOAS is responsible for advising the Board of Trustees on the strategic development and future direction of the university’s academic activities. It is part of the academic governance ...

People seek stability and reliability during periods of uncertainty, and they will often take anything that looks helpful, seems to make sense, or otherwise fills a void. Absent the perfect, it seems, ...

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Dr Alia Amir, Research Associate at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, takes us on a 'decolonising walk' through Bloomsbury, London and reflects on some of the historical landmarks ...

SOAS University of London will award honorary degrees to eight distinguished individuals at this year’s graduation ceremonies. The awardees include economist Gary Stevenson; development practitioner ...

SOAS University of London has provided guidance to its students on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and set out its position on the challenges and opportunities posed by new forms of AI ...

Jotika Khur-Yearn, Southeast Asia Librarian at SOAS, discusses his recent work on a project to improve catalogue metadata for the library’s important collection of Southeast Asian manuscripts, ...

A new SOAS project has created free learning resources for secondary school teachers to address the legacies of colonialism in more creative and engaging ways in the classroom. Earlier this month, we ...

Acclaimed DJ, author, radio host and broadcaster Peter Barakan has built a successful and enduring career in Japan with cult shows including Barakan Beat and Japanology Plus, while working with ...

In their new research initiative, The Centrality of the Margins, Xu Peng, Jonathan Goodhand, Patrick Meehan and Naomi Yonder ask what explains the concentration and resilience of scam compounds in ...