Research

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Staff are actively involved in a number of research groups and centres, including, the Centre for Translation Studies, the Centre for Interdisciplinary and Gender Studies, and the Institute for Medieval Studies. In recent years a major AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) grant was awarded to study a number of Arabic documents (13th to 15th century) unearthed at Quseir al-Qadim on the Egyptian Red Sea coast.

Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies staff are involved in the following research groups:

Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Cultural studies research group

Film and visual culture research group