SOAS University of London SOAS, University of London is the only higher education institution in Europe specializing in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS is a remarkable institution. It combines language scholarships, disciplinary experience and the regional approach, which has the largest European concentration of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East. On the one hand, this means that SOAS scholars deal with urgent issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change - that face two-thirds of humanity, while at the same time guardians of the specialized knowledge remaining in the languages and periods and regions that are not available anywhere else in the United Kingdom. This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual research and achievement. It is a global academic base and a fundamental resource for London. We live in a world of contraction borders and economic and technological simultaneity. However, it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that is SOAS clearly positioned to analyze, understand and explain. Our academic approach to the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world. It is a global academic base and a fundamental resource for London. We live in a world of contraction borders and economic and technological simultaneity. However, it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that is SOAS clearly positioned to analyze, understand and explain. Our academic approach to the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world. It is a global academic base and a fundamental resource for London. We live in a world of contraction borders and economic and technological simultaneity. However, it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that is SOAS clearly positioned to analyze, understand and explain. Our academic approach to the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world.