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Welcome to the 3rd episode of our 10 part series on consent.

In this episode we will discuss what happens when you decide to report an incident of sexual assault or harassment at SOAS. To do this we spoke with Alex* who shared with us their experience of going through the complaints procedure at SOAS, hearing about the demands of the experience and the impact it had on their life and studies. We also spoke to campaign group Account For This SOAS to hear about the actions they are taking to transform harassment policies at SOAS and as a result make the university a safe place for survivors.

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Produced by Mary Holditch and SOAS Radio.

Featuring Zaynab Siddiqui, Indigo Lilburn- Quick and Harleena Jagde.

For the second Episode of Dardasha, we met with performance and spoken word artist Farah Chamma.

translation of the poem "Table Rase" by Farah Chamma

(In French)

Take everything I know

Take everything I know and throw it in the Nile

Like the mother of Moses did

Don’t ask me where I am from

Or where I was born

Don’t look for what is written on my papers

I am no one

A nomad, a lost soul, a simple nomadic spirit

I am a language without meter, without rhyme

I am Arabic, Persian, Latin, German

I am language, unconstrained

(In Arabic)

There is no homeland for me on the ground,

I find it in the sky,

A free cloud, pure

There is no homeland for me on the ground,

I find it in the sky,

A fleecy cloud, pure,

Stretching like the sea, on hold

The infinite blue

(in French)

I am snow and desert,

I am earth and universe

I am the calm of the ocean of the sea

I am the words that follow each other in a verse

(in Arabic) I am Darwish, (In e=English) I am Poe, (In French) I am Baudelaire

(in Arabic)

I do not hear tribunal words

I do not hear rules and orders

I am neither the Constitution, nor am I the peaceful dove

I am Ibrahim who shatters ignorant idols

I am a flower who flows from the ink of pen

If you want to see Farah perform with SOAS's very own Rafeef Ziahdah, Dana Dajani and Jowan Safadi come to Rich Mix on the 15th of February.

This week we speak about Technologies of Financial Inclusion in Low Income Countries. a key focus for the Centre for Global Finance at SOAS, run by Professor Victor Murinde.

Professor Victor Murinde is a financial economist, with more than 25 years’ expertise, mainly in academia, policy and consultancy roles for governments and leading international organisation. He was the founding Director of African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (2011-2014). Professor Murinde is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of a large research project on “Delivering Inclusive Financial Development and Growth”, and a Co-Investigator on “Research on China’s Financial System towards Sustainable Growth: The Role of Innovation, Diversity and Financial Regulation” jointly with colleagues at SOAS University of London and Nankai University Tianjen, and Zhejiang University, Hangzou, in China.

In 2017, he was appointed to the AXA Chair in Global Finance in the School of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London, and he is responsible for providing CGF’s vision, strategy, and oversight.

Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-6-centre-global-finance

Toslima is a PhD student at SOAS and her research topic studies the Abbasid Caliphate's trade with Europe and India.

This week we have 2 guests in the studio to talk about Queering the Internet, LGBTQ Representation Online. Following the repealing of section 377 in India. A law which gives hope for LGBT communities by making homophobia illegal. In this episode we explore the realities and how queer identity can exist online.

Mayur Suresh is a Lecturer in Law at SOAS. In 2016, he was awarded a PhD from Birkbeck for this thesis titled ‘Terrorist’ lives in Delhi’s courts: An ethnography of the legal worlds of terrorism trials. Before his doctoral studies, Mayur practiced law in Delhi, where he and his colleagues represented a wide variety of clients. Mayur was part of the legal team in the Naz Foundation case – that successfully challenged India’s anti-homosexuality law in the Delhi High Court, and defended the judgment in the Supreme Court. Mayur has co-edited a volume on the politics of the Indian Supreme Court titled The shifting scales of justice: The Supreme Court in Neoliberal India (2014). He is currently completing a book manuscript based on his doctoral research.

Tabitha Millet researches in the areas of Queer Theory and Art Education at UCL. Tabitha’s PhD research focuses on developing and troubling the curriculum at GCSE by exploring gender and sexuality in the art classroom. Tabitha has taught Art and Design in a number of London schools and continues to develop her own artistic practice working with the themes of gender and sexuality. Tabitha has held exhibitions in London, Oxford and Cambridge. In addition, Tabitha was recently awarded the Spirit of Soho award for her artwork and the Charles Fox prize at Cambridge for her research.

Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-5-queer

On the 10th of November after a great Show by Djane Missy Ness and Lebanese Hip Hop artist el-Rass, we met with Inès aka Missy Ness and talked about her sounds, her influences, some projects she runs, we talked about Feminism, her experiences as a Djane.

SOAS Concert Series welcomes Armenian Duduk player 'Arsen Petrosyan' to play in the Brunei.

Sophie Darling of SOAS Radio interviewed Arsen before his performance about his upcoming show, the traditions of the ancient duduk and Armenian music.

Arsen Petrosyan

Duduk: Sound & Symbol of Armenia

Arsen Petrosyan is a young master of the Armenian duduk, an ancient double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. He is a graduate of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, where he studied under renowned master Gevorg Dabaghyan. Considered a musical prodigy, Arsen initially began his studies with mentor Krikor Khachtryan, starting out on the shvi (an Armenian wind instrument) at the age of six.

Despite his relatively young age (born in 1994), Petrosyan has already performed throughout the world. He is currently a soloist with the Armenian Traditional Music Ensemble (Yerevan) and has his own group, the Arsen Petrosyan Trio.

For this concert, Arsen will perform from a repertoire Armenian traditional and sacred music, accompanied by the French multi-instrumentalist, NykkÖ Grégoire.

www.petrosyanduduk.com

In the first episode of The Believers, a show about religion and faith at SOAS, Pablo and Krithika get under the skin of the Hare Krishnas, to learn more about them than the delicious free lunches that they provide students.

Tune in to Episode 1 as we take a look into behind the scenes of creating a student newspaper with The SOAS Spirit Editors.

To get involved in The SOAS Spirit, email [email protected]

This week we are speaking with 2 SOAS students from Egypt about Online Spaces & Overcoming Government Censorship. Hossam Fazulla is a researcher and writer from Cairo. He has spent the last 7 years bridging the gap between art and human rights as Director of Freedom of Artistic Creation at the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and as a former trainer at Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. Fazulla’s work focuses on cultural policies and the contemporary Egyptian cultural scene. Fazulla has authored several publications including Why You Can’t be Creative in Egypt (2017), Cultural Policies: Foundation, Evolution and Problems (2015), and co-authored Censor of Creativity (2013).

Salma Khamis is a researcher and writer from Cairo, whose interests lie somewhere in between journalism and academia. She conducted research on Muslim-Christian relations and religious diversity in Egypt and currently works at one of the country's leading independent news outlets Mada Masr. These days, Salma’s research interests are more focused on literary studies of contemporary Egyptian cultural products. She examines representations of Egyptian identity constructions across various art forms, with a marked emphasis on revolutionary culture.

Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-4-egypt