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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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A Man In Our House (Fi Baitina Rajul)

FILM000054
Based on the famous novel by Ihsan Abdel Quddous, this 1961 classic is set prior to the 1952 revolution and stars the legendary Omar Sharif in one of his most memorable roles.

Sharif plays Ibrahim, a member of the underground resistance who seeks refuge from the so-called "political police" by taking shelter in the home of a civil servant and his family.

Directed by Henri Barakat, this film offers a vivid depiction of the Egyptian resistance to the British occupation and features some of Egypt's finest filmmaking talents.
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1961
153 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Language
Arabic
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000054
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People with a connection to this film
Rushdy Abaza (Actor)Zahret El Ola (Actor)Hussein Riad (Actor)Henri Barakat (Director)
Publications related to this film
Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard (2010)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0157 Subtitled: English and French Black and White
DVD ARA/FIL/0158 Subtitled: English and French Black and white
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 06/01/2014 17:44