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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.

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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 Land (Al-Ard)

FILM000126
Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi’s well-known novel of the same name, this film classic by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight years in the making. Chronicling a small peasant village’s struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

This contemplative, epic film about feudalism in rural regions received a warm reception at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and at one time was named the best Egyptian film ever made in a poll of Egyptian film critics.
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1969
130 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genres
Adaptation, Drama
Language
Arabic,
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000126
Entered into 1970 Cannes Film Festival
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People with a connection to this film
Yehia Chahine (Actor)Ezzat El-Alaili (Actor)Ali El-Scherif (Actor)Mahmoud El-Meliguy (Actor)Imad Hamdi (Actor)Nagwa Ibrahim (Actor)Youssef Chahine (Director)
Publications related to this film
Ibrahim Fawal (2002) Malek Khouri (2010) Maureen Kiernan (1995) Susannah Downs (1995) Zahr Said Stauffer (2009)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0141 Subtitles: English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 04/01/2014 16:46