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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. 

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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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Beggars and Noblemen (Shahateen Wa Nubalaa)

FILM000028
The setting is Cairo in June of 1945, during the last days of the Second World War. Gohar, a former university professor, encounters a young prostitute in an empty brothel and kills her in a moment of insanity. Assigned to the murder case, police inspector Nour El-Din stays on Gohar’s trail hoping for a confrontation and confession of the crime.
In this remarkable adaptation of the novel by Albert Cossery, both the detective and the criminal are faced with startling realizations as one closes in on the other.
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1992
92 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Language
Arabic
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000028
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People with a connection to this film
Salah El-Saadany (Actor)Mahmoud El Guindi (Actor)Abdel Aziz Makhyoun (Actor)Hanan Youssef (Actor)Lola Mohamed (Actor)Asmaa El-Bakry (Director)Marianne Khoury (Producer)Antoine Gannagé (Producer)
Publications related to this film
Rebecca Hillauer
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0081 Subtitled in English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 22/12/2013 16:04