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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.

Modern cemetery with Irish flag

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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The Closed Doors

FILM000024
The Closed Doors, touches on several taboos in contemporary Egyptian society,examining their social and political implications. Set during the Gulf War, it tells the
story of Mohamad, a highly impressionable young man who embraces fundamentalist
ideas as a way of dealing with the confusion of adolescence and sexual awakening. This
powerful first feature by one of Egypt's most promising young directors tackles complex
themes like oppression, jealousy, virtue, the love ideal and violence in an
uncompromising way.
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1999
109 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Language
Arabic
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000024
Winner! Best Screenplay, Best Actress -International Thessaloniki Film Fest

Winner! First Prize -Bahrain Film Fest

Winner! Grand Prix- Montpellier Film Fest
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People with a connection to this film
Mahmoud Hemida (Actor)Sawsan Badr (Actor)Ahmed Azmi (Actor)Manal Afifi (Actor)Atef Hetata (Director)Gabriel Khoury (Producer)Marianne Khoury (Producer)
Video Clips
The Closed Doors
Publications related to this film
Daniel S. Cutrara (2014) Josef Gugler (2011) Walter Armbrust (2008)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0120 English Subtitle
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 31/12/2013 16:29