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Projects

We host a series of major research projects, funded by organisations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Please see below for more information on a selection of major research projects in English Literature currently taking place or recently completed.

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Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Investigating how Palestine has been imagined in the public sphere in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Double Helix history

This project thinks about the popular understanding of the work of DNA and, more particularly, how we might understand, represent, and visualise it. 

Communist march in Ukraine

Wars of Position

This AHRC funded project takes a new look at Communism in the West.

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My Country, A Journey

A research based drama on the migrant experience in Britain.

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Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

This project investigated the complex relationships between vocabulary, artefact and image.

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Alexandria, Why? (Iskandarya, Leh?)

FILM000011
Yehia, here representing the young Youssef Chahine, is obsessed with Hollywood musicals and dreams of studying acting in the USA; a beautiful Jewish socialite must decide between fleeing the advancing Germans with her father or staying with her Egyptian lover, who is secretly working with the Germans; a wealthy Egyptian aristocrat murders occupying troops one by one until he meets a young British soldier with whom he develops a special bond. Chahine masterfully weaves these interrelated storylines together to create a magnificent historical and autobiographical tapestry.
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1978
127 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Languages
Arabic English,
Country of Origin
Egypt
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http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000011
Winner of the Silver Bear & Special Jury Award at the Berlin Film Festival, this acclaimed first instalment in Chahine’s groundbreaking Alexandria Trilogy takes place in 1942, as British and Arab forces fight together against German troops advancing toward Alexandria.

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People with a connection to this film
Moshen Mohieddin (Actor)Naglaa Fathi (Actor)Ezzat El-Alayli (Actor)Mohmoud El-Meligui (Actor)Moshena Tawfiq (Actor)Ahmed Zaki (Actor)Youssef Chahine (Director)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0135 subtitled : English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 24/10/2013 11:35