All post-graduate research students are initially registered for the MPhil award of their chosen degree until they undertake the Upgrade examination to confirm their eligibility to transfer to the PhD ...

Over the course of the degree, the BA Arabic programme provides students with a solid foundation in Arabic, training them in both the written and the spoken forms of the language and exposing them to ...

We are a diverse, multi-lingual, and engaged community. Our teaching is research-led and our curriculum is sharp and cutting-edge. We teach what we practise, and we practise what we teach. We grapple ...

Nick Westcott was Director of the Royal African Society from 2017 to 2023. Following a PhD in African History at Cambridge University, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982 and served ...

The College of Law is the only one of its kind in the UK—dedicated to legal systems and legal challenges of the developing world, with complementary strengths in human rights, international law and ...

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Vice-Chancellor Professor Adam Habib and Director of Advancement Shona Aitken look forward to welcoming you to an exclusive SOAS Alumni Reception in New York. Jack Snyder is the Robert and Renée ...

This talk will be led by Dr Zaynab Ango, a British Academy International Visiting Fellowship from Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Abuja, Nigeria. Dr Ango will focus on ...

The SOAS Library is open 7-days a week, from 8am-11pm on weekdays, and 9:30am-10pm at the weekend. Explore our catalogue of over 1.3 million volumes housed in the SOAS Library, together with a major ...

CMDS invites you to a series of events centred on the concept of return, understood as an idea, practice, and contested horizon. The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (CMDS) hosts a two-day ...

This blog explores how Palestinian journalists like Wael al-Dahdouh transform journalism into an act of survival, resistance, ...

Based on her experience as a central banker and banking sector supervisor in Africa and internationally, Fundi Tshazibana outlines key challenges that climate change poses for central banks and the ...