SOAS in the Media: November 2025 Highlights of SOAS experts in the media discussing key issues and topics this month.
Statement on alumnus Sami Hamdi's detention in the US We are deeply concerned by reports regarding the detention of British journalist and SOAS alumnus Sami Hamdi in the United States.
An introduction to North Korean art and challenges in assembling a collection Nicholas Bonner has been collecting North Korean art since 1993 and will discuss his history of collecting and the challenges he has faced over the years.
Moving Stories: The Sufi Romance Across Language, Space & Form This talk presents episodes in the history of the Sufi romance (‘ishqiya masnavi), a genre that circulated across South Asia in the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.
Book Launch: 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific' Professor Niki Alsford and Dr Ti-Han Chang share the new edited volume, 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific.'
Calls to strengthen Equality Act at landmark event in Parliament Dr Suriyah Bi, a lecturer in Islam in Britain & founder of the Equality Act Review held a landmark event in Parliament to discuss the proposals to strengthen the legislation of the Equality Act 2010.