SOAS in the Media: 11 Feb - 17 Feb

18 February 2020

This week, Steve Tsang, Director of the SOAS China Insitute once again provided expertise on the the coronavirus outbreak and the Chinese government's handling of the crisis for BBC World Service , Channel 4 News , ABC News , The New York Times and over 300 other global media outlets.

Items related to Asia

  • La Nacion , New Delhi Times and 14 other media outlets: Owen Miller, SOAS professor of Korean Studies, comments on relations between poor and rich in South Korea after the release of Oscar-winning film Parasite - 12 Feb
  • South China Morning Post: George Magnus, research Associate at SOAS, comments on the affect of the coronavirus outbreak in China - 15 Feb
  • CGTN: Daniel Marwecki, senior teaching fellow at SOAS, comments on the recent rise of anti-China racism abroad as a result of the novel coronavirus epidemic - 14 Feb
  • Jakarta Globe: SOAS alumni Will Doran writes on decriminalising drugs in Indonesia - 11 Feb
  • South China Morning Post and 4 other media outlets: Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute comments on the new head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Xia Baolong - 13 Feb
  • The Muslim Times: A profile of SOAS research associate Myriam François-Cerrah - 14 Feb
  • India Today: Professor Werner Menski comments on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) getting a second consecutive landslide mandate in the Delhi assembly election - 14 Feb
  • GIST: In coordination with Philippine Studies at SOAS, the Daang Dokyu Documentary Film Festival will show previously archived documentaries from the Philipines - 11 Feb
  • Ming Pao Daily News: Article by SOAS PhD candiate Li Enzheng about the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong - 11 Feb
  • Asian World News: A new play set against the partition of India has been made in consultation with Eleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the history of modern South Asia at SOAS - 11 Feb
  • Chinadialogue: Professor Edward Simpson, director of the South Asia Institute's exhibition at the Brunei Gallery - A Passage Through Passages - explores the surge in road building in South Asia over the last 100 years - 17 Feb

Items related to Africa

  • The Economist , Monocle and Just Security : SOAS Professor of international politics Phil Clark discusses if Sudan will extradite former President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court - 12 Feb
  • Pulse Nigeria , Channel Africa and Kenyan Wall Street : SOAS alumni Wamkele Mene voted as Secretary-General to the African Continental Free Trade Area - 11 Feb
  • Columbian.com: Lucy Durán, Professor of Music, writes a statement about the damage the U.S. Transportation Security Administration made to Malian musician Ballake Sissoko's kora - 13 Feb
  • Businessday.ng: The 2018 SOAS Arbitration in Africa study is quoted in a report on national policy on arbitration in Nigeria - 16 Feb

Items related to the Middle East

  • Jewish Chronicle: Emeritus professor Colin Shindler writes about Sinn Féin taking a hard, pro-Palestinian line - 12 Feb
  • Imperial & Global Forum: Alice Finden, PhD candidate in Gender Studies at SOAS, writes on British colonialism in Egypt and contemporary counter-terrorism laws - 12 Feb

Items related to other regions/SOAS General

  • The Independent and Yahoo! News : Professor of society and belief Alison Scott-Baumann comments on student essays at UK universities being investigated by police under the government’s “counter-terror” measures - 16 Feb
  • AFP: Mashood Baderin, professor of laws, comments on the resurfacing on Facebook of a news article from 2014 falsely claiming that Islamic sharia law has been “enshrined in the UK legal system” - 12 Feb
  • Inside Philanthropy and Times Higher Education: Coverage of the announcement that SOAS will be one of 12 universities included in the George Soros network - 14 Feb
  • Inverse: Research associate Guy Standing comments on the end of Andrew Yang's US presidential bid - 12 Feb
  • Radio Reloj Cuba: SOAS Director Valerie Amos is received by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in Havana - 11 Feb
  • CBC Radio One 90.5 (CBHA): SOAS Alumni David Shariatmadari talks about standards in English language - 12 Feb
  • London Student: Coverage of SOAS's policies to protect students in wake of the coronavirus outbreak in China - 13 Feb
  • Critical Legal Thinking: Michele Tedeschini, PhD candidate in Law writes about International legal historiography - 12 Feb
  • ConnectNigeria.com: SOAS Radio joined in the celebrations for World Radio Day - 13 Feb
  • Los Angeles Review of Books: A book review of Deepa Anappara’s debut novel 'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line', by SOAS PhD candidate Sana Goyal - 12 Feb

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