Research Interests for miriam cooke

Arab cultural studies

Keywords:

Arab culture, Islam, gender

Current projects:

"The Tribal Modern in the Arabian Gulf: the Past as Future. An examination of the production of an ultramodern cosmopolitanism with tribal values."

Areas of Interest:

Arab world

Recent Publications   (search)

1. m. cooke, “Arab Feminist Research and activism: Bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical”, Feminist Theory 2011 11:121 (2011)
2. m. cooke, “The Cell Story: Syrian Prison Stories after Hafiz Asad”, in Middle East Critique vol. 20/2, 2011, 169-188 (2011)
3. m. cooke, Nazira Zeineddine. Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer (2010), Oxford: Oneworld Press (part of Makers of the Muslim World Series)
4. m. cooke, “Yahya Haqqi: Arabic Wordsmith” in Roger Allen (ed.) Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850-1950 Harrassowitz Verlag 2010, 113-125 (2010)
5. m. cooke, “Deploying the Muslimwoman” (including roundtable response to mc essay), Journal for Feminist Studies of Religion (2009)