Miriam Cooke
{{Short description|American academic}}
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Miriam Cooke (she spells her name in lowercase){{Cite journal|last=Joseph|first=Suad|date=2018|title=miriam cooke: A Pioneer of Middle East Women's Studies|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689444|journal=Journal of Middle East Women's Studies|volume=14|issue=1|pages=129–132|doi=10.1215/15525864-4297186 |issn=1558-9579|url-access=subscription}} is an American academic in Middle Eastern and Arab world studies. She focuses on modern Arabic literature and critical reassessment of women's roles in the public sphere.
Biography
She was educated in the United Kingdom,{{cite web |url=http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/7187 |title=Guests: Miriam Cooke |work=Charlie Rose Show online |accessdate=14 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207125454/http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/7187 |archivedate=7 December 2013 }} and is co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.{{cite web |title=Journal of Middle East Women's Studies: About the journal | url= http://jmews.org/about/the-journal/ |publisher= Duke University Press |accessdate= 30 August 2015 }} She has published over 100 articles and 130 book reviews.
She is a professor of modern Arabic literature and culture at Duke University. She received her doctorate from the St Antony's College, Oxford in 1980.
Bibliography
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = The anatomy of an Egyptian intellectual, Yahya Haqqi | publisher = Three Continents Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780894103964 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Cooke | first1 = Miriam | last2 = Badran | first2 = Margot | title = Opening the gates: a century of Arab feminist writing | url = https://archive.org/details/openinggatescent00badr | url-access = registration | publisher = Indiana University Press | location = Bloomington | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781853810312 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = War's other voices: women writers on the Lebanese civil war | publisher = Syracuse University Press | location = Syracuse, New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780815603771 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Women and the war story | url = https://archive.org/details/womenwarstory00cook | url-access = registration | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780520206137 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Women claim Islam: creating Islamic feminism through literature | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780415925549 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Dissident Syria: making oppositional arts official | publisher = Duke University Press | location = Durham | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780822340355 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Nazira Zeineddine: Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer | publisher = Oneworld | location = Oxford | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-85168-769-5 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf| publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley, CA | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780520280106 }}
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience and the Syrian Revolution| publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2017 | isbn = 9781138692176 }}
= Fiction =
- {{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Miriam | title = Hayati, my life: a novel | publisher = Syracuse University Press | location = Syracuse, New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780815606710 }}
References
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External links
- {{Charlie Rose view|7187}}
- [https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=492/ Miriam Cooke Papers] - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
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