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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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The Other

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From world-renowned Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (Destiny, Alexandria…Why?), THE OTHER is a delirious love story between Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a corrupt, domineering female industrialist, and Hanane, a beautiful but impoverished newspaper reporter.
Unfortunately, Adam’s mother Nargaret (Nabila Ebeid) is possessive to point of violence and will stop at nothing to get rid of Hanane. In her efforts to control her son, Margaret bribes her daughter-in-law’s brother, a fanatical thug who belongs to a fundamentalist terrorist cult, to lure Hanane into a deadly trap.
Among the passionate embraces, extravagant musical numbers and a stirring vision of a harmonious, multi-cultural Middle East, Chahine unravels the connections among naked greed, corrupt power, Western “globalization” and religious fanaticism.
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1999
101 mins
The KimStim Collection
Genres
Drama, Romance
Languages
Arabic, English
Country of Origin
Egypt
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000129
Youssef Chahine: Winner Lifetime Achievement Award 50th Cannes Film Festival
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People with a connection to this film
Mahmoud Hemida (Actor)Hanan Turk (Actor)Hani Salama (Actor)Nabila Ebeid (Actor)Youssef Chahine (Director)
Publications related to this film
Ibrahim Fawal (2002) Malek Khouri (2010)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0109 Subtitles: English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 07/01/2014 17:21