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miriam cooke

miriam cooke

Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor Emerita of Arab Cultures
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
mcw@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 203, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414

Selected Publications

The Daughter of Isis at Duke University

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · March 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Introduction

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · March 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Nazira Zeineddine: a jovem e os xeiques

Journal Article Sociologias · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Novel Traces of the Qur'an?

Journal Article Novel · November 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Intelligent souls? Feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · July 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Displacement, war, and exile in simone fattal's works and days

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · January 1, 2020 Full text Open Access Cite

Cold War Literature of the Middle East and North Africa

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Throughout the Cold War, writers in the Middle East and North Africa took the pulse of their times, attempting to make sense of local and global transformations. While the first ten years of the Cold War found countries struggling to free themselves from t ... Full text Cite

Murad vs. ISIS: Rape as a weapon of genocide

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · January 1, 2019 This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) perpetrators of sexual violence, their Yazidi victims, and two women's demands for reparative, ... Full text Cite

Egyptian women's writings

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · March 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Arab women writers 1980-2010

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Full text Cite

CREATING ON THE EDGE

Chapter · 2017 Cite

INSULTING BASHAR

Chapter · 2017 Cite

CHOREOGRAPHING TRAUMA

Chapter · 2017 Cite

Editorial foreword

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · November 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Dancing in Damascus Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution

Book · October 4, 2016 Countless numbers have been disappeared. These shocking statistics and the unstoppable violence notwithstanding, the revolution goes on. The story of the attempted crushing of the revolution is known. ... Cite

Queens of Syria

Other South Writ Large · May 2016 Link to item Cite

DANCING IN DAMASCUS: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution

Chapter · January 1, 2016 On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government agains ... Full text Cite

Association tounissiet

Other Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · November 1, 2015 Full text Cite

It’s a Revolution: The Cultural Outpouring Fueled by Syrian War

Other PS 21: Project for the Study of the 21st Century · March 2015 Link to item Cite

Ungendering Peace Talk

Chapter · 2015 Cite

Near Middle East/North Africa Studies: Culture

Other International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences · 2015 Cite

Gendering War Talk

Book · July 14, 2014 In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play ... Cite

Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf

Book · January 1, 2014 In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, ... Cite

The New Empire

Other Boundary 2 · May 17, 2013 Cite

THEME ISSUE Emerging Voices in Comparative Literature from the Middle East INTRODUCTION

Journal Article JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMENS STUDIES · March 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Tadmor’s Ghosts

Journal Article Review of Middle East Studies · 2013 Cite

Emerging Voices in Comparative Literature from the Middle East

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies · 2013 Cite

Feminism in Islam

Journal Article · 2013 Cite

Feminism in Islam

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Réseaux d’artistes et d’écrivains dans la nouvelle Méditerranée

Journal Article Méditerranée/ Mondialisation · 2013 Cite

Introduction

Conference Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Tadmor's Ghosts: Postscript on Syrian Art

Journal Article Review of Middle East Studies · January 1, 2013 The situation in Syria has continued to deteriorate. The government has increased its aggression against the people, and outside elements with unclear motives have joined the opposition. On 21 August, the people of Ghuta suffered a chemical attack, and ove ... Full text Cite

Inside Dissident Syria

Other Al-Jazeera · October 15, 2012 Cite

• Feminism in Islam

Journal Article · 2012 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2012 Cite

The Cell Story: Syrian Prison Stories after Hafiz Asad

Journal Article Middle East Critique · 2011 Cite

Magical realism in Libya

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · April 1, 2010 This essay argues that the writings of Libyan Ibrahim al-Kuni, and particularly Nazif al-hajar with its emphasis on animal-human juxtapositions and metamorphoses, should be considered examples of Arab magical realism. The circular narrative tells the story ... Full text Cite

Nazira Zeineddine. A Pioneer of Islamic Feminist Pioneer

Book · 2010 In 1928, a young Lebanese woman, Nazira Zeineddine al-Halabi, wrote a book called "Unveiling and Veiling", an indictment of patriarchal oppression in which she boldly stated that the veil was un-Islamic, directly challenging the teachings of “wiser" male s ... Cite

Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender and Politics * BY BETH BARON

Journal Article Journal of Islamic Studies · January 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Rejoinder to "Muslimwoman" responses

Journal Article Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion · December 11, 2008 Full text Cite

Mediterranean Passages from Delos to Derrida

Book · 2008 Through 100 texts and 30 images, _Mediterranean Passages_ advocates for a re-reading of the sea as a contact zone and a space of encounter and conversion that tempers the dominance of the nation-state. The volume argues for a transcultural and networked ap ... Cite

Deploying the Muslimwoman

Journal Article Journal for Feminist Studies of Religion · 2008 Including roundtable response to mc essay ... Cite

Academic freedom: The "Danger"of critical thinking

Journal Article International Studies Perspectives · November 1, 2007 Full text Cite

The Muslimwoman

Journal Article Contemporary Islam · August 1, 2007 In the 6 years that have elapsed since the events of 9/11 Muslims have become the Other and veiled Muslim women have become their visible representatives. Standing in for their communities, they have attracted international media attention. So intertwined ... Full text Cite

Women and Islamism in Europe

Other Neo Magazine · July 2007 Cite

Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Officia

Book · 2007 From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the wo ... Cite

Women and War in Iraq

Journal Article World Literature Today · 2007 Cite

Baghdad burning: Women write war in Iraq

Journal Article World Literature Today · January 1, 2007 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2006 Cite

In Search of Leo Africanus

Other Transitions Abroad · April 2005 Cite

Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

Book · 2005 Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and ... Cite

No such thing as women’s literature

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies · 2005 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2005 Cite

Contesting Campus Watch

Journal Article Al-Azhar Journal of Research · 2004 Republished on-line in Muntada al-kitab March 2005 ... Cite

Euro-American Women’s Studies in Islamic Cultures

Other Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures · 2003 Cite

Saving Brown Women

Journal Article Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society · September 2002 Full text Cite

Beirut Reborn: The Political Aesthetics of Auto-Destruction

Journal Article The Yale Journal of Criticism · September 2002 Full text Cite

Islamic Feminism before and after September 11

Journal Article Journal of Gender Law and Policy · 2002 Cite

Humanist Nationalism

Chapter · 2002 Cite

War, Gender, and Military Studies

Journal Article NWSA Journal · October 2001 Full text Cite

Women Claim Islam Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

Book · 2001 This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. Arabic translation by National Translation Center Pr ... Cite

Ghassan al-Jaba`i. Prison Literature in Syria after 1980

Journal Article World Literature Today · 2001 Cite

Near Middle East and North African Culture

Other International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences · 2001 Cite

Censorship in Syria

Other Censorship: A World Encyclopedia · 2001 Cite

Hayati, My Life A Novel

Book · 2000 Miriam Cooke's melic prose animates the existence of each of the women portrayed in her new novel. With Samya, we live in Palestine of the 1920s and are imprisoned during the imposition of the British Mandate; with Assia we experience the massacre of Deir ... Cite

Women, Religion & Postcolonial Arab World

Journal Article Cultural Critique · 2000 Cite

Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Strategies

Journal Article Nepontala · 2000 Reprint in L. Donaldson & K. Pui-Lan, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse (eds) Routledge, 2002. ... Cite

Living in Truth

Chapter · 2000 Cite

Middle Eastern Literature

Chapter · 2000 2nd edition 2004; 3rd edition 2008; 4th edition 2013. ... Cite

Feminist transgressions in the postcolonial Arab world

Journal Article Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies · March 1999 Translated into Chinese, Middle East Studies of Peking University vol.1, 2015. ... Full text Cite

Mediterranean thinking: From netizen to medizen

Journal Article Geographical Review · January 1, 1999 The Mediterranean has traditionally been approached from a geographical and historical perspective that has collapsed the material and political differences between water and land. This conflation has been instrumental in homogenizing the diversity of this ... Full text Cite

Recent Scholarship on Women in the Middle East

Journal Article National Women's Studies Association Journal · 1999 Cite

Mapping Peace

Chapter · 1999 Cite

The Other Language

Journal Article Peuples Mediterraneens, Mediterranean Peoples · 1998 Reprint in S. Morton & C. Schlote (eds) Reading Literature from the Middle East and its Diasporas, 2009. ... Cite

The other language and construction of the self

Journal Article Peuples Mediterraneens · December 1, 1997 Cite

Listen to the image speak

Journal Article Cultural Values · April 1997 Full text Cite

Women and the War Story

Book · 1997 In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary liter ... Cite

n to the Image Speak

Journal Article Cultural Values · 1997 Reprint in Routledge Reader of Intercultural Communication, 2004, 2nd ed. 2010, 3rd ed. 2016. ... Cite

Ayyam min hayati: The Prison Memoirs of a Muslim Sister

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · 1995 Reprint in The Postcolonial Crescent. Islam’s Impact on Contemporary Literature (John C. Hawley, ed.), 1997. ... Cite

Prisms on Boundaries

Chapter · 1995 Cite

Reimagining Lebanon

Chapter · 1995 Cite

Blood Into Ink: 20th Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War

Book · 1994 This anthology of 20th-century South Asian and Middle Eastern women's writings illustrates how they have become active participants in conflicts, speaking about war not only as an extraordinary experience, but also as an ordinary experience of coping with ... Cite

Arab Women Arab Wars

Journal Article Cultural Critique · 1994 Cite

Zaynab al-ghazālī: saint or subversive?

Journal Article Welt Des Islams · January 1, 1994 Full text Cite

Blood Into Ink: 20th Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War

Book · 1994 This anthology of 20th-century South Asian and Middle Eastern women's writings illustrates how they have become active participants in conflicts, speaking about war not only as an extraordinary experience, but also as an ordinary experience of coping with ... Cite

Men Constructed in the Mirror of Prostitution

Chapter · 1993 Reprinted in Peter F. Murphy (ed.), Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures Crossing Sexualities, New York University, 1994, 96-120. ... Cite

Femmes Arabes. Guerres Arabes

Other Peuples Mediterraneens, Mediterranean Peoples · 1993 Cite

Arab Women Writers

Chapter · 1992 Translated into Arabic “Al-katibat al-`arabiyat” in Al-adab al-`arabi al-hadith, Jeddah: Al-nadi al-adabi al-thaqafi 2002. ... Cite

Phallomilitary Spectacle in The DTO

Journal Article Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies · November 1991 Cite

The Heart's Directions

Other World and I · March 1991 Reprinted partially under the title "The Veil Does Not Prevent Women from Working" in Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers (ed. Carol Verburg) St. Martin's Press,1994. ... Cite

Postmodern Wars. Phallomilitary Spectacle in The DTO

Journal Article Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies · 1991 Cite

Notes and comments

Journal Article International Journal of Middle East Studies · January 1, 1991 Full text Cite

Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing

Book · 1990 From Publishers Weekly: This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy. Palestinian Fadwa Tuqan's father demanded that ... Cite

Deconstructing War Discourse: Women's Participation in the Algerian Revolution

Other for Women in International Development · June 1989 Cite

Naguib Mahfouz

Journal Article Middle East Journal · 1989 Cite

War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War

Book · 1988 This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentered ... Cite

Prisons. Women Write about Islam

Journal Article Religion and Literature · 1988 Cite

Trends in Modern Arabic Literary Criticism

Journal Article Arabiyya · 1987 Cite

Women Write War: The Centering of the Beirut Decentrists

Other Papers on Lebanon · 1987 Republication: "Women Write War. The Feminization of Lebanese Society in the War Literature of Emily Nasrallah" in British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin vol. 14 no.1 (1988) 52-67. ... Cite

Good Morning!: And Other Stories

Book · 1987 Translation and edition of stories. Partially reprinted in Clerk & Siegel, Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World, Harper Collins 1994. ... Cite

Telling Their Lives. A Hundred Years of Arab Women's Writings

Journal Article World Literature Today · 1986 Cite

The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi

Book · 1984 Arabic translation by Egyptian Cultural Council Press, 2005. 2nd edition, 2009. ... Cite

The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi

Book · 1984 Arabic translation by Egyptian Cultural Council Press, 2005. 2nd edition, 2009. ... Cite

Ibn Khaldun and Language: From Linguistic Habit to Philological Craft

Journal Article Journal of Asian and African Studies · January 1, 1983 Full text Cite

Ibn Khaldun and Language: From Linguistic Habit to Philological Craft

Journal Article Journal of Asian and African Studies · January 1, 1983 Full text Cite

Lebanon. Theatre of the Absurd...Theatre of Dreams

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · 1982 Cite

Lebanon at Bay. Redefining the Self through War

Journal Article Journal of Arab Affairs · 1982 Cite

Egypt-Baptism of Earth

Journal Article Arabiyya · 1981 Cite

Yahya Haqqi as Literary Critic and Nationalist

Journal Article International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies · 1981 Cite

Yaḥyā ḥaqqā as critic and nationalist

Journal Article International Journal of Middle East Studies · January 1, 1981 Full text Cite

The First Lesson

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · January 1, 1980 Full text Cite