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Author Archives: Sophie Benbelaid

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Sampi: A Review

by Sophie Benbelaid October 19, 2023October 19, 2023
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Play House and Definitely the Bahamas Review

by Sophie Benbelaid February 10, 2023
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by Sophie Benbelaid, Riana Modi, Sophie Sargent, Jessica Mason, Thomas Shaw and Oliver Roberts November 12, 2022November 12, 2022
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Tartuffe Review

by Sophie Benbelaid November 8, 2022November 9, 2022
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The Ghosts of Writing and Publishing

by Sophie Benbelaid October 17, 2022October 17, 2022
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Meet the Columnists MT22! pt. 1

by Sophie Benbelaid, Riana Modi, Bea Munro, Alice Emmett, Claire Torina Coulthard and Hannah Davis October 12, 2022October 12, 2022
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The Elephant in the Newsroom: Discovering Your Voice

by Lucy Heywood, Ruben Martin-Ward, Zariel Konadu, Evie Craggs, Thomas Evans, Sophie Benbelaid, Thripty Dutt and Imogen Edmundson October 9, 2022October 9, 2022
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Why ‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 3 Helped Me With My Grief

by Sophie Benbelaid September 18, 2022September 24, 2022
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Less is More

by Riana Modi and Sophie Benbelaid September 16, 2022September 16, 2022
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The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Sophie Benbelaid Dec 15, 2025 6 min read
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“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Sophie Benbelaid Dec 15, 2025 3 min read
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‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…

Who am I? Finding my identity between two languages

Sophie Benbelaid Dec 13, 2025 4 min read
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That person, no matter what they do in the present, will always be defined by what they did. In the country where I was born,…

Outside OX1 Week 8: End of Term Special

Sophie Benbelaid Dec 12, 2025 22 min read
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The Editor’s Note As the end of term is finally here, many will be lacing up their skiing boots; or enduring painstaking journeys home around…

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