Rosemary Hollis Essay Prize 2023 – winner UG category

In June 2023 City University of London awarded two prizes for the Rosemary Hollis Essay Competition, an annual award made in the name of our inspiring late colleague Prof.Hollis, who was an expert of Middle East policy and intercultural relations across the Euromed region. Learn more about her through these interviews. Below we are proud […]

Rosemary Hollis Essay Prize – winner MA category

In June 2023 City University of London awarded two prizes for the Rosemary Hollis Essay Competition, an annual award made in the name of our inspiring late colleague Prof.Hollis, who was an expert of Middle East policy and intercultural relations across the EuroMed region. Below we are proud to publish the essay by Nadim Khan, […]

Celebrating our staff and students at the Student Union Awards

Many congratulations to the following students and staff for having been recognised at the Student Union Awards 2023! Ariella Vogel Valk was runner up in the Awards category “Programme Reps of the Year” for our School of Policy and Global Affairs (SPGA) Dr Cecilia Rikap is the winner in the “Staff Teaching Excellence Award” category […]

Student Spotlight… Gabriella on Trump

Is President Trump’s ‘deep state’ the same as Mills’s ‘power elite’? by third year student Gabriella Storrar-Patricio There are similarities between the two theories. Mills wrote that the power elite refers to “those political, economic, and military circles, which as an intricate set of overlapping small but dominant groups share decisions having at least national […]

Spotlight on our alumni… Irina Mamulashvili

Having witnessed the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008 at a young age, I decided to devote my life to international politics. In my dreams, I hoped to pursue a study of politics and become a professional in this field. A dream came true when the UK Government awarded me the Chevening Scholarship, enabling me to pursue a MA […]

Spotlight on our alumni… Maryam Negm

Welcome to the new blog section “Alumni Spotlight”! Today we meet and celebrate Maryan Negm who received the highest dissertation prize in our MA in International Politics and Human Rights (cohort 2021-22). Her dissertation title was How Data is Breaking Democracy‘. This is what she says about her experience at City: “I’m an Egyptian national […]