{{Short description|American academic}} {{Infobox scholar | name = miriam cooke | image = Miriam_Cooke.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | fullname = | othernames = | birth_name = <!-- Use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | residence = | era = | region = | workplaces = Duke University | alma_mater = St Antony's College, Oxford | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | school_tradition = | main_interests = Middle Eastern and Arab world studies | principal_ideas = | major_works = | awards = | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }} '''miriam cooke''' (she spells her name in lowercase)<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and is co-editor of the ''Journal of Middle East Women's Studies''.<ref name=About>{{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 }}</ref> 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 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 }}
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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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