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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.

magnified dna strand

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.

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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Lion of the Desert

FILM000074
Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, the brilliant Bedouin leader who waged a 20-year guerrilla war against the invading Italian tank armies led by General Rodolfo ‘The Butcher’ Graziani (Oliver Reed of GLADIATOR) and increasingly furious Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (Academy Award winner Rod Steiger). Oscar winner John Gielgud co-stars with a cast of thousands in this action-packed epic produced and directed by Moustapha Akkad (THE MESSAGE) that remains one of the most provocative historical dramas of our time.
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1981
174 mins
Genres
Drama, Biopic, Action
Languages
English, Arabic,
Country of Origin
Libya
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http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000074
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People with a connection to this film
Anthony Quinn (Actor)Oliver Reed (Actor)Rod Steiger (Actor)John Gielgud (Actor)Moustapha Akkad (Director)
Video Clips
Lion of the Desert Trailer
Publications related to this film
Giacomo Lichtner (2013) Josef Gugler (2011)
Copies in the collection
DVD ENG/FIL/0203
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 06/01/2014 17:27