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

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

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A research based drama on the migrant experience in Britain.

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

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Struggle on the Nile

Catalogue Code

FILM000095

Synopsis

Three years before Lawrence Of Arabia made him an international sensation, dashing Egyptian actor Omar Sharif starred in this wonderful masterpiece of Egyptian cinema that has been virtually unseen in the US since its release in 1959.

Sharif plays naïve young Muhasab, who is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the “Bride of the Nile,” in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer (played by the beautiful Hind Rostom), is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the “Bride of the Nile.”

Sensual and atmospheric, Struggle On The Nile draws inspiration from the best European cinema of the era, while still remaining true to Egyptian cinematic traditions and locales.

Year of Release

1959

Running Time

120 mins

Distributor

Arab Film Distribution

EIDR

Genres

Drama, Romance

Language

Arabic,

Country of Origin

Egypt

Permalink

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000095

Notes

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DVD ARA/FIL/0150 Subtitles: English and French

Last modified on 06/11/2013 18:45

Projects

Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Double Helix history

Wars of Position

My Country, A Journey

Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

Discover more

Struggle on the Nile

People with a connection to this film

Video Clips

Copies in the collection

Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database