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| miriam cooke, Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Education:
- D.Phil. Oxford University 1980
- 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
She has travelled and researched in Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Syria. Her first book dealt with the writings of one of Egypt's leading intellectuals of the 20th century, Yahya Haqqi. Subsequently, her interests turned to the writings of women, especially those that deal with issues of war and gender in the postcolonial Arab world. Her recently published book, Women Claim Islam, analyzes the discourse of Islamic feminists.
- Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- m. cooke. "“Arab Feminist Research and activism: Bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical”." Feminist Theory 2011 11:121 (2011).
- m. cooke. "“The Cell Story: Syrian Prison Stories after Hafiz Asad”." in Middle East Critique vol. 20/2, 2011, 169-188 (2011).
- m. cooke. Nazira Zeineddine. Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer. Oxford: Oneworld Press (part of Makers of the Muslim World Series),
2010.
- m. cooke. "“Yahya Haqqi: Arabic Wordsmith” in Roger Allen (ed.) Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850-1950 Harrassowitz Verlag 2010, 113-125." (2010).
- m. cooke. "“Deploying the Muslimwoman” (including roundtable response to mc essay)." Journal for Feminist Studies of Religion (2009).
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