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Global Health: On the Racial Immunologics of Humanitarian Organizations

  • Malak Sherif
  • April 12, 2022
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‘Global Health: On the Racial Immunologics of Humanitarian Organizations’ is the second seminar of our 2021/22 series. The session included a discussion with Adia Benton, who expands on a theory of racial immunologics introduced in her essay, “Racial immunologics and the Ebola Response in West Africa,” to further

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Real Talk: Afghanistan Beyond Geo-politics and States

  • Malak Sherif
  • April 7, 2022
  • Seminar Series
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https://youtu.be/D8zdNaOWyNM ‘Real Talk: Afghanistan Beyond Geo-politics and States’ is the first seminar of our 2021/22 series. The session included a discussion with Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Dr. Homira May Rezai and Dr. Mariam Safi, experts in conflict, communities and marginalised populations in Afghanistan. The seminar was followed by

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The Realities of Covid-19 in Yemen 10 years after the Arab Spring

  • Leanne Rantell
  • May 31, 2021
  • Seminar Series
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‘The realities of Covid-19 in Yemen, 10 years after the Arab Spring’ is the second webinar of our 2020/21 Seminar series. The session included a discussion with Abdi Ismail about the effect of Covid-19, the continuing humanitarian crisis and how the international community is combating the conflict. Followed

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 6

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • August 19, 2019
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In the sixth episode of the humanitarian hub podcast, Tayba Ahmed talks with Dr Natalie Roberts about her role as Head of Emergencies with MSF. Dr Natalie draws our attention to the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the DRC, while also, bringing to light, the cohort of actors involved

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The Politics of Providing Humanitarian Support to Migrants

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • August 12, 2019
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This week’s guest blogger, Ed Martin,  considers ‘The politics of providing humanitarian support to migrants.’ He is currently completing his MSc in Migration, Mobility, and Development at SOAS. Before coming to SOAS, I was living in Marrakech, Morocco. The city had a history of hosting West and Central

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Q&A – Big versus Small Organisations

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • August 6, 2019
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In today’s post, Tayba Ahmed, a present a VCD student sat with a former VCD alumnus to discuss their experiences working in the humanitarian sector. Naturally, the discussion turned into a Q&A, centred on some of the developmental perks and challenges of working for both bigger organisations and

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 5

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 30, 2019
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  In the fifth episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Ellen Goodwin about her PhD research exploring the potentials of promoting local, inter-religious cooperation to build resilience in fragile contexts. Ellen is currently researching at SOAS, in conjunction with World Vision UK. We

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Ellen Goodwin: Engaging with Local Religious Actors in Humanitarian Contexts

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • July 10, 2019
  • News & Research
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In this video Ellen Goodwin discusses elements of her PhD research at SOAS, where she explores  the role of inter-religious action in humanitarian interventions. She highlights the historical role that religious actors have played in humanitarian interventions and more broadly the developmental sector by addressing two fundamental questions:

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Humanitarian Hub Podcast – Season 1 Episode 1

  • Jake Tacchi
  • July 2, 2019
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  The first episode of the Humanitarian Hub Podcast, is now live! In this podcast, Jake Tacchi speaks with Dr. Suda Perera about her recent article: ‘To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States’, alongside her work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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The SOAS Development Studies Seminar Series

  • Tayba Ahmed
  • July 1, 2019
  • News & Research
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Outside the confines of classrooms, the SOAS Development Department has a lot of activity happening throughout the academic year. The most well-received and well-attended lecture series is the Development Studies Seminar Series organised by Feyzi Ismail and Alfredo Saad-Filho. The seminar takes place weekly across both terms with

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