In Memory of Salma Khadra Jayyusi With great sadness the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies has received the news that the distinguished poet, scholar, translator, and anthologist Salma Khadra Jayyusi departed this life on 20 April 2023, having just celebrated her one hundredth birthday.
A new report calls for urgent action on the growing sovereign debt crisis in the Global South A new report by Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery Project co-led by the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance highlights the urgent need to address the growing sovereign debt crisis in the Global South and puts forward policy recommendations.
Usawa: The mobile game tackling descent-based slavery The result of an innovative collaboration between researchers, NGOs, artists and developers, a new game educates on modern slavery through an Afro-futuristic environment.
Scholarships to further develop anthropological perspectives on mental health launched SOAS anthropologists who secured a grant worth nearly £8 million to set up a new mental health research centre in London have launched new scholarship opportunities for the study of mental health and anthropology.
SOAS wins consultancy contract with with global sustainability platform for sugarcane, Bonsucro SOAS academics, will work in partnership with academics in CEBRAP (The Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning) to support Bonsucro to develop a monitoring evaluation and learning framework, strategy, guidance and support package for Bonsucro members in receipt of a Bonsucro Impact Fund grant.
Bahamas Foreign Minister urges students to use their voice 'even if it shakes' Foreign Minister of The Bahamas, The Hon. Frederick A. Mitchell, warns that the international system is entering a period of growing instability, with small states increasingly exposed to geopolitical tensions, in an address to students.
SOAS Centre for Yoga Studies opens Chinese exhibition exploring 1,000 years of yoga The Centre for Yoga Studies has launched the ‘Embodied Liberation: The History of Physical Yoga’ exhibition in Guangzhou, China.
SOAS alumnus and England rugby star Maro Itoje campaigns to help schoolchildren amid the pandemic None