Linguistics and Philosophy

The Arab Spring Movement sparked a key realisation for me. I consciously recognised the privileges I had been granted growing up in a democratic country and I came to understand that free and fair systems are still not practised worldwide. Whilst democracy, free enterprise and human rights have flou

I have never been able to perceive language and literature as separate disciplines. Rather, I have viewed them as a single academic unit: a literary work relies on the elements of language to facilitate its expression, and language inherits meaning through its place in literature. This intrinsic lin

Literature has always been central in my life. My drive to pursue English academically was sparked at the age of fifteen, when I read Les Miserables and was enchanted with Hugo’s vast narrative, a profound panoramic portrayal of love in all its forms. Since then I have been fascinated by how writers