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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.

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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Saladin (El Nasser Salah Eddine)

FILM000087
When director Ezzedine Zulfiqar took ill, Chahine was asked to helm this pan-Arabian classic that commemorates the reclamation of the Suez Canal.

Set in the 12th century, Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, unites Arabs across North Africa and Western Asia against the crusading Christians. After defeating Richard the Lion-Hearted, the legendary Saladin pledges that Arab Jerusalem will remain open to all pilgrims, whatever their religion.

Some critics have called SALADIN the greatest historical epic of Egyptian cinema.
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1963
145 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genres
Drama, Historical Epic
Language
Arabic,
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000087
Entered the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival
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People with a connection to this film
Ahmed Mazhar (Actor)Nadia Lofty (Actor)Salah Zolficar (Actor)Hamdy Gheiss (Actor)Omar El Hariri (Actor)Hussein Raid (Actor)Youssef Chahine (Director)
Publications related to this film
Hala Halim (1992) Malek Khouri (2010) Maureen Kiernan (1995)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0096 Subtitles: English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 24/01/2014 17:47