SOAS in the media 15 March
15 March 2013
This week Professor Gurharpal Singh’s appearance on ‘The Sikh Wedding Crashers’ was broadcast and he was quoted on BBC News on Sikh weddings. Professor Rachel Dwyer has been featured in The Guardian on Bollywood films in Bradford, and both Dr Mark Faulkner and Professor Paul Gifford have commented on news around papal candidates earlier this week. Professor Nadje Al-Ali’s appearance at last weekend’s WOW festival at London Southbank also received coverage.
Professor Gurharpal Singh on ‘The Sikh Wedding Crashers’ (30-mins documentary)
BBC Asian Network – 11/03/13 (00:07:46)
Sikh wedding crashed by protesters objecting to mixed faith marriages
BBC News – 11/03/13
“Professor Gurharpal Singh, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, says the rise in mixed faith weddings has led to objections.”
My love affair with Bollywood in Bradford
The Guardian – 13/03/13
“The course was run by Professor Rachel Dwyer, a leading authority on Indian cinema, and it quickly became apparent that she was a friend of the stars.”
With 176 million Catholics, Africa gains prominence
Observer & Eccentric – 12/03/13
"(Previous popes have) seen a church that is incredibly vivacious and lively and exciting which is what I think some popes have certainly lamented about the decline of the church in Europe and the rise of secularism," said Mark Faulkner, a senior teaching fellow at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
“The Catholic Church's values "are in accordance with what might be called African values," including when it comes to social issues like homosexuality and contraception, says Paul Gifford, the author of multiple books on Christianity in Africa.”
Could an African be the next pope?
10 News – 12/03/13
"(Previous popes have) seen a church that is incredibly vivacious and lively and exciting which is what I think some popes have certainly lamented about the decline of the church in Europe and the rise of secularism," said Mark Faulkner, a senior teaching fellow at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. "They see the opposite in Africa where they do see a very vibrant Christian community.”
“The Catholic Church's values "are in accordance with what might be called African values," including when it comes to social issues like homosexuality and contraception, says Paul Gifford, the author of multiple books on Christianity in Africa”
Top 10: Highlights of WOW festival 2013
Arise Live – 15/03/13
"I think it's really important that we move beyond the binary thinking of Western feminism and Middle East feminism", declared SOAS professor Nadje Al-Al in Saturday's Global Feminism
French troops in Mali – another example of Francafrique?
Pod Academy – 9/03/13
Dr Marie Rodet talks to Alex Burd
Water challenged increasing for countries in Middle East
Gulf Times – 10/03/13
“Trade is the first means of being resilient; it’s the process that enables an economy to be resilient. The ability to trade effectively depends on the strength and diversity of the economy,” Anthony Allan from King’s College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies told IRIN.”
The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family
The Guardian – 9/03/13
“I remember Lisa coming back from the first meeting and saying how she had met this great woman, a lecturer in economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, super clever and sharply funny, and who never stopped laughing.”
Three day Sufi literature seminar begins at AMU
CalcuttaNews.Net – 9/03/13
“Professor Charles Melville of Cambridge University, Ziauddin Ahmad Shakeb, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Khwaja Ekramuddin, the director, National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language and Ali Fauladi, cultural counsellor, Iran Culture House and AMU Pro-Vice Chancellor, Brig. (retd.) S. Ahmad Ali were also present.”
'The artist makes the unseen visible' says Lung Ying-Tai
Chinadialogue – 12/03/13
When Lung Ying-Tai – the outspoken writer who is now Taiwan’s first Culture Minister– arrived for a talk in London last month, she was met with the kind of reception usually reserved for rock stars. Mobile-phone cameras aloft, unabashedly star-struck fans packed a standing-room-only lecture hall at the School of Oriental and African Studies to hear her speak with refreshing candour about her new position.”
