{"id":12040,"date":"2011-03-31T02:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:57:44","slug":"school-of-oriental-and-african-studies-soas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=12040","title":{"rendered":"School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(University of London)<\/p>\n<p>The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/\">about 1\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/a-z\/\">A-Z Index<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/research\/\">Research<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/research\/eprints\/\">Research online<\/a>, eprints; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/research\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/library\/\">Library<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/news\/\">News<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/events\/\">Events<\/a>;<br \/>\nSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/contacts\/\">Contacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/\">About 2\/2<\/a>: &#8230; On the one hand, this means that SOAS remains a guardian of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues &#8211; democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change &#8211; confronting two-thirds of humankind.<\/p>\n<p>This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual enquiry and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world of shrinking borders and of economic and technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, understand and explain.<\/p>\n<p>Our academic focus on the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world.<\/p>\n<p>SOAS at a glance: &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/about\/\">full text about<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(University of London) The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=12040\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-body"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17444,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/17444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}