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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.

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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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Water-Bearer Is Dead (El Saqqa Mat)

FILM000099
In this masterpiece by the leading director of Egyptian realist cinema, a friendship develops between two men with contradictory world-views.

One, a water-bearer whose wife died twenty years earlier, spends his days remembering her and mourning her loss. The other, a mortician, spends his life in the pursuit of worldly pleasures because he believes that death will end all enjoyment. As their friendship develops, the water-carrier slowly sheds his morbid way of thinking and begins to enjoy the many things that life has to offer.
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1997
100 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Language
Arabic
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000099
Nomination
Film Presented - 1979 Venice International Film Festival
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People with a connection to this film
Farid Chawki (Actor)Ezzat El-Alayli (Actor)Salah Abu Seif (Director)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0088 Subtitled: English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 11/11/2013 15:09