(The following spoken word poetry was performed at a Student Action for Refugees (STAR) event held at the University of Westminster on the 7th of December, 2017. To read the poet’s reflection on the piece click here. If you want to know more about Samia Yusuf Omar and her life, you could begin here) ‘Samia...
(The following article is the author’s reflection on the circumstances which led her to pen a piece of spoken word poetry titled ‘Samia Yusuf Omar.’ It is also a critical assessment of the conversations surrounding the ongoing refugee crisis. The author performed the piece at a Student Action for Refugees (STAR) event which took place...
There are complex relationships, and then there is one that India has with China- not in the binary of agreements and disagreements but convoluted in shades of grey. Until 2015, the most demonstrable achievements of Prime Minister Modi’s first term in office were in the domain of India’s foreign policy. However, over the last few...
Before I began my degree in International Relations in 2015, I was studying Nutrition at Westminster’s Science and Technology Campus on Cavendish. I quickly realized this was not what I wanted to pursue and left this course after a few months. I then began full-time work with a recruitment company in Central London. I was...
In the decades following the end of the Cold War, there have been fundamental changes in the use of violence around the world. We have seen a move away from the classical or ‘Clausewetzian’ type of interstate conflict and into the less easily defined areas of intrastate conflict. Added to this has been the rise...
Reflections on the trip to Delhi, India through the eyes of a student who had never visited a country outside the European continent before… Due to various reasons, the trip to Delhi can be labeled as the ‘trip of my life’. Firstly, I had never visited the Asian continent before, so it was a new...
The trip to Turkey initially promised both a great academic and social experience. Upon arriving at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in the evening we boarded minibusses towards the city of Kocaeli as the core part of our trip was centered there. The following morning, we headed to the Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity which was a walking...
Muna Hassan is a third year International Relations and Development Studies student. She recited some of her poems on International Women’s Day at the University of Westminster’s exhibition in March 2018. Here are her thoughts on poetry and one of her poems- I performed a spoken word piece at the University of Westminster’s event for...
I have always believed I was a terrible writer while at school, English was never my strongest subject. I’m also not a native English speaker; I was born and raised for a few years in Pakistan and came here, to London, when I was six and a half years old. I can speak a few...
The Oxford dictionary defines a “Shackle” as a pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner’s wrists or ankles together or even as a situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something. This editorial is not just to emphasize a subject that has at last been brought to...
The earthquake that took place in Haiti in 2010 killing over 250,000 people (Ramachandran et al, 2013) opened the debate on how the preconditions of the country contributed to maximise the effects of the natural disaster. According to Dr. Matthias Garschagen (2016), the disaster potential was not only driven by the force of the natural...
Communism, eastern politics, socialism working with market liberalism, Asian culture, eastern education, respectful and inspirational students, a landscape beyond imagination; and so much more all put together to make a beautiful country and open a young western man’s eyes to reality and the world he is living in. This was my first time going to...