Sophie Benbelaid, Author at The Oxford Blue

Sampi: A Review

by Sophie Benbelaid October 19, 2023October 19, 2023

Play House and Definitely the Bahamas Review

by Sophie Benbelaid February 10, 2023

Meet the Columnists MT22! pt.2

by Sophie Benbelaid, Riana Modi, Sophie Sargent, Jessica Mason, Thomas Shaw and Oliver Roberts November 12, 2022November 12, 2022

Tartuffe Review

by Sophie Benbelaid November 8, 2022November 9, 2022

The Ghosts of Writing and Publishing

by Sophie Benbelaid October 17, 2022October 17, 2022

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

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

Why ‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 3 Helped Me With My Grief

by Sophie Benbelaid September 18, 2022September 24, 2022

Less is More

by Riana Modi and Sophie Benbelaid September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

Meet The Columnists TT22!

by Sophie Benbelaid, Gloria Morey, Elyse Airey, Bea Munro, Iris Campbell-Lange, Jacob Reid, MK Hubbard, Hannah Davis, Cat Tickell, Claire Torina Coulthard, Yii-Jen Deng and Aili Channer April 22, 2022April 28, 2022

Second Draft: Teary-eyed goodbyes

Sophie Benbelaid Jul 23, 2026 10 min read

Illustration of themes and objects relating to Oxford.

“For the past 20 minutes, I have been staring at an empty word document. This was categorically not the plan. When I started writing my…

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Sophie Benbelaid Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Image credit to Thomas Yates, used with permission.

Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Sophie Benbelaid Jun 21, 2026 7 min read

The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.

“At the individual level, the mismatch between memory and history appears fairly harmless. For the collective, it can be terrible. The present, the only actuality,…

Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online

Sophie Benbelaid Jun 21, 2026 6 min read

A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.

Culture feels chaotic right now. The times of communion over music videos on MTV are officially over, and our lives are split across millions of…