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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.

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

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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.

Lady Emmeline Courtenay, c. 1375 — Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

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

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Nasser 56 (Nasser Sitawkhamseen)

Catalogue Code

FILM000060

Synopsis

In thoroughly entertaining fashion, Nasser 56 gives an idea of what it means for a small Middle Eastern nation to dare to defy the world's superpowers, the USA and its Western allies in particular. That's exactly what Egypt's then-President Gamal Abdel Nasser did in July 1956, when he boldly orchestrated the nationalization of the Suez Canal, the construction of which had cost the lives of 120,000 Egyptians from a population of only 4 million a little more than a century earlier.

Director Mohamed Fadel and writer Mahfouz Abd Al Rahman, who shrewdly film in black and white so as to match vintage newsreel footage, present Nasser (an effectively understated Ahmad Zaki) as a modest, selfless paragon dedicated to his nation's self-determination and devoted to his family. They pull off the necessary trick of making suspenseful a pivotal incident, the outcome of which is part of modern world history.

Year of Release

1996

Running Time

142 mins

Distributor

Arab Film Distribution

EIDR

Genre

Drama

Language

Arabic

Country of Origin

Egypt

Permalink

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000060

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DVD ARA/FIL/0097 Subtitled : English

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Projects

Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Double Helix history

Wars of Position

My Country, A Journey

Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

Discover more

Nasser 56 (Nasser Sitawkhamseen)

People with a connection to this film

Video Clips

Copies in the collection

Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database