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The Department of Media Studies at SOAS is an interdisciplinary space for research and teaching in global media and digital communications from a non-Western perspective with a particular focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East and their diasporas. 

The department offers postgraduate education with a range of modules and structures that address the entanglement of media in lives, in politics, development, war and change. We offer distinctive doctoral supervision and support innovative and groundbreaking research.  

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"The department brings together so many perspectives on the crucial questions of our world and, in doing so, creates a community of learning that feels unique and immersive."

— Dr Dounia Mahlouly, Chair of the Department of Media Studies

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