miriam cooke
Professor
Education Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center

Office Location: 222 Trent Hall
Office Phone: (919) 684-2312
Email Address: mcw@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/web/muslimnets/mcw_bio/

Specialties:
Arabic

Education:
PhD, Oxford University, 1980

Research Categories: 20th Century, Criticism, Feminist Theory, Comp Lit, and Arabic

Research Description: My writings have dealt with gender and war in the Arab world, Islamic feminism, modern Arabic literature and culture. I have focused on the fiction and films of Egyptians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, Algerians. I am interested in the networks Muslim women are creating in the 21st century. Most recently, I have been researching the construction of Muslimwoman cosmopolitanism.

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• AMES 183.01, Palestinian-israeli conflict Synopsis

  Franklin center 230/232, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• AMES 199.01, Research ind study for honors Synopsis

• AMES 254S.01, Muslim networks Synopsis

  Languages 211, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Edited by miriam cooke, Erdag Goknar, and Grant Parker, Mediterranean Passages - Readings from Dido to Derrida (2008) .
2. m. cooke, • Dissident Syria. Making Oppositional Arts Official Duke University Press 2007 (2007), Duke University Press .
3. m. cooke, The Muslimwoman”, Contemporary Islam, 2007 (2007) .
4. m. cooke, Academic Freedom: the Danger of Critical Thinking”, International Studies Perspectives 2007 (2007) .
5. m. cooke, Women and War in Iraq”, World Literature Today 2007 (2007) .

Curriculum Vitae

Highlight:
My writings have dealt with gender and war in the Arab world, Islamic feminism, modern Arabic literature and culture. I am interested in the networks Muslim women are creating and their construction of Muslimwoman cosmopolitanism.