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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.

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. 

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Wars of Position

This AHRC funded project takes a new look at Communism in the West.

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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 Sixth Day

FILM000093
The year is 1947 and Saddika (Egyptian-born singer Dalida) lives with her paralytic husband and her grandson, Hassan, while a cholera epidemic ravages Cairo. Her difficult life mirrors that of the heroine in her favorite movie, "A Mother's Sacrifice."

When cholera strikes Hassan, Saddika enlists the help of Okka, a Gene Kelly fanatic who has been courting her, to take Hassan to Alexandria. There they await the sixth day, the fateful day when the cholera victim either recovers or dies.
Originally from Egypt, internationally acclaimed singer Dalida returned from France in order to star in The Sixth Day for Youssef Chahine. Sadly, shortly after giving this remarkable performance, Dalida took her own life.
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1986
101 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Language
Arabic
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000093
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People with a connection to this film
Dalida (Actor)Mohsen Mohieddine (Actor)Chwikar Hamdi Ahmad (Actor)Youssef Chahine (Director)
Publications related to this film
Malek Khouri (2010) Maureen Kiernan (1995)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0125 Subtitles: English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 27/01/2014 18:05