The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer (Ludlul bēl nēmeqi), Tablet II, lines 1-26, read by Antoine Cavigneaux
Professor Trevor H J Marchand Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and traditional building practices; apprenticeship, learning and cognition; space, place and architecture; theory in anthropology.
New director named at the SOAS South Asia Institute We are pleased to announce that Dr Subir Sinha, a specialist in South Asian politics, has been appointed as the new Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI).
European Research Council grants awarded to Maqām music project and Zoroastrian ritual analysis Funding has been awarded to two SOAS researchers: Professor Almut Hintze will be analysing prehistoric oral culture of the Indo-Iranians, and Professor Rachel Harris will be leading a project on a musical tradition found across Western and Central Asia.
Women, life, freedom: achieving political change in Iran The latest Director's Lecture Series event on the ongoing protests in Iran will take place on Thursday 10 November from 6-7.30pm GMT on Zoom.
Dr Peter Slinn Currently, Peter is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame (London Law Centre), and joint General Editor of the Law Reports of the Commonwealth, (Butterworths LexisNexis) the 100th volume of which was published in 2009. He is Vice-President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Chair of the Editorial Board of the Commonwealth Judicial Journal and a member of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.