3003, 2013

Birds Eye View Film Festival: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers [3rd-10th April]

By David Pearson|March 30, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

Next week sees the start of the 2013 Film Festival: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers along with two special events for International Women’s Week on 7th & 8th March. It runs from 3-10 April 2013 and takes place at the BFI Southbank, Barbican, ICA & Hackney Picturehouse, Southbank Centre. The program consists of features, documentaries, short films, events, live music and awards that give factual and fictional perspectives by, and on, Arab women.

2703, 2013

Myanmar Peace Monitor

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|March 27, 2013|South East Asia|0 comments

Following the 2010 elections, Myanmar/Burma has seen rapid political and economic reforms with the installation of a democratic government. Major parts of these reforms include the new Ceasefire Agreements singed between the government and the armed ethnic groups. The setback, however, is that, despite the ceasefire agreements, fighting between the government’s Burma Army and the armed ethnic groups is still going on particularly in Kachin State and Shan State. Nevertheless,

2603, 2013

Keeping up-to-date with law blogs

By Gerald Power|March 26, 2013|Law|0 comments

Blawg Search provides an effective and digestible way of keeping up-to-date with the latest posts from approximately 4000 law blogs i.e. blawgs! The search is provided by the US information service Justia. It is easy to use. Much of the content covered is from the US, but about 400 blogs from other countries are included, e.g. China, Bangladesh, India, The Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, among others. Law blogs are

2203, 2013

Electronic version of the Official Journal of the European Union

By Gerald Power|March 22, 2013|Law|0 comments

From 1st July 2013, the electronic version of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) will be legally valid and authentic. Read the press release from the EU Publications Office. The EU Commission wants to improve citizens’ access to the law and to their rights. Before July, only the print version is authentic. The OJ has been available in print and electronic form for many years. It can be

2003, 2013

EIU Country Data

By Victoria Bird|March 20, 2013|Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

You can now access the Economist Intelligence Unit’s CountryData database to find detailed financial information for 50 countries, from 1980 to the present- and with forecasts for up to 2030 for some key variables. It’s also possible to obtain summary information of the EIU Country Outlook reports. EIU CountryData contains over 280 variables, divided into the following major categories: Gross domestic product, Fiscal and monetary indicators, Demographics and income, Foreign payments, External debt stock,

2003, 2013

Literature – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 20, 2013|Literature|0 comments

Criticism & interpretation Changing currents : transnational Caribbean literary and cultural criticism / edited by Emily Allen Williams, Melvin B. Rahming. Southeast Asian writers / ed. by David Smyth. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. Love’s subtle magic : an Indian Islamic literary tradition, 1379-1545 / Aditya Behl Realism in the twentieth-century Indian novel : colonial difference and literary form / Ulka Anjaria. Life

1903, 2013

Statistics, databases and websites – guidance for SOAS students beginning dissertations

By Victoria Bird|March 19, 2013|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Beginning research for your dissertation can make you feel a little lost, especially when you are searching for statistics or other data. Statistics and other factual databases are not just for Mathematicians, or Economists- they can provide powerful evidence for any Social Science discipline. This post will introduce some of the sources for non-specialists. Start point- Library databases A good start point is to consider what you actually need in

1903, 2013

Linguistics – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 19, 2013|Linguistics|0 comments

The Oxford handbook of sociolinguistics / edited by Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology / edited by Jae Jung Song. The Oxford handbook of translation studies / ed. by Kirsten Malmkjær and Kevin Windle. The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax / edited by Guglielmo Cinque, Richard S. Kayne The Cambridge handbook of linguistic code-switching / edited by Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline

1803, 2013

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 18, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Pointing the finger : Islam and Muslims in the British media / [edited by] Julian Petley and Robin Richardson. Fundamental religio-political concepts in the sources of Islam / by Souran Mardini Who speaks for Islam? : what a billion Muslims really think / John L Esposito, Dalia Mogahed Muslims and others in sacred space / edited by Margaret Cormack Beyond dogma : Rumi’s teachings on friendship with God and

1503, 2013

Interview with Shani Boianjiu, author of “The People of Forever Are Not Afraid”

By Mary Fisk|March 15, 2013|Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem twenty-five years ago, and grew up in a village near the Lebanese border. She later studied at Harvard. Her debut novel, The people of forever are not afraid, which chronicles the experiences of three teenage Israeli girls through their high school years, military service and on into civilian life, was published in English at the end of 2012. In the following interview (given to the online magazine Tablet in December 2012),

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