miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor Emerita of Arab Cultures and Professor of Duke University Center for International Studies
My interests are in modern Arabic literature and contemporary Arab culture. I have written about war and gender in Arabic literature and film and also about Islamic feminism.
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of Oxford (United Kingdom) | 1980 |
D.Phil. | Oxford University | 1980 |
M.A. | University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) | 1971 |
- Specialties:
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Arabic
Literature & Culture
Gender & Islam
Middle East & North Africa
- Research Interests: 20th Century, Criticism, Feminist Theory, Comp Lit, and Arabic
Current projects:
biography of Nazira Zayn al-Din
Arab cultural studies
- Areas of Interest:
- Arab world
- Keywords:
- Arab culture • Islam • gender
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Basima Shaheen
- Anna Levett
- Louis Yako
- • Yaqeen Fouad
- Yasmine Khayyat
- SherAli Tareen “Arabic Literature, Religion and Innovation” 2009 MA
- Recent Publications
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- Cooke, M, The Daughter of Isis at Duke University,
Journal of Middle East Women'S Studies, vol. 18 no. 1
(March, 2022),
pp. 150-155 [doi]
- Cooke, M, Introduction,
Journal of Middle East Women'S Studies, vol. 18 no. 1
(March, 2022),
pp. 147-149 [doi]
- Cooke, M, Nazira Zeineddine: a jovem e os xeiques,
Sociologias, vol. 24 no. 61
(January, 2022),
pp. 116-139 [doi]
- Cooke, M, Novel Traces of the Qur'an?,
Novel a Forum on Fiction, vol. 54 no. 3
(November, 2021),
pp. 467-469, Duke University Press [doi]
- Cooke, M, Intelligent souls? Feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature,
Journal of Middle East Women'S Studies, vol. 17 no. 2
(July, 2021),
pp. 271-273 [doi]