miriam cooke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

miriam cooke

Scholarly Works - Books

Dancing in Damascus Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution

Gendering War Talk

Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf

Nazira Zeineddine. A Pioneer of Islamic Feminist Pioneer

Mediterranean Passages from Delos to Derrida

Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Officia

Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

Women Claim Islam Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

Hayati, My Life A Novel

Women and the War Story

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

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

Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing

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

Good Morning!: And Other Stories

The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi

The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi