# Miriam Cooke

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'''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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Arabic_literature) and culture at [Duke University](/source/Duke_University). She received her doctorate from [St Antony's College, Oxford](/source/St_Antony's_College%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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 }}

==References==
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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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