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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 Nightingale's Prayer (Doa al Karawan)

FILM000063
Based on the novel by the great Egyptian novelist Taha Hussein, The Nightingale's Prayer stars the first lady of the Arab silver screen, Faten Hamama. This compelling tale of love and betrayal is set in the upper Egyptian countryside and follows the story of Amna (Hamama) as she plots her revenge on the engineer (Ahmed Mazhar) who destroyed her family's honor.

A gripping portrait of a courageous young woman's rebellion against tradition and poverty, this film is an undiscovered masterpiece of world cinema.
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1959
119 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genres
Romance, Drama
Language
Arabic,
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000063
Nominated for a Golden Bear, 1960 Berlin International Film Festival
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People with a connection to this film
Faten Hamama (Actor)Ahmed Mazhar (Actor)Amina Rizk (Actor)Henri Barakat (Director)Barakat Film (Producer)
Video Clips
The Nightingale's Prayer (Doa al Karawan)
Publications related to this film
Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard (2010)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0075 Subtitled: English Black and White
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 07/01/2014 16:53