SOAS ALUMNI and ex-SU Honorary President on hunger strike?

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ex-Honorary President of SOAS's Students' Union and also SOAS Alumni Dau Aung San Suu Kyi is today reported as being on hunger strike.

Under house arrest for over 13 years, Suu Kyi was elected Honorary President of SOAS Students' Union in 2006. Read more

Ghurabaa-alienated strangers

And from an Egyptian prison sung straight from the heart...

"This is a video clip that shows "Ikhwanul Muslimeen" prisoners in Egypt during the time when Syed Qutb was in jail. In the video the prisoners are in a jail cell and have been sentenced to death. And one of the prisoner starts to recite a poetry known as "Ghurabaa"(Strangers). Subhanallah, it is not dificult to feel their pain..."