Duke the Program In Literature

  • miriam cooke

  • Professor
  • Literature
  • 2204 Erwin Road 203
  • Campus Box 90414
  • Phone: (919) 684-2312
  • Fax: (919) 681-7871
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  • Curriculum Vitae

  • Overview

    My interests are in modern Arabic literature and contemporary Arab culture. I have written about war and gender in Arabic literature and film and also about Islamic feminism.

  • Specialties

    • Arabic
    • Literature & Culture
    • Gender & Islam
    • Middle East & North Africa

  • Research Summary

    20th Century, Criticism, Feminist Theory, Comp Lit, and Arabic

  • Research Description

    Arab cultural studies

  • Current Projects

    biography of Nazira Zayn al-Din

  • Areas of Interest

    Arab world

  • Education

      • D.Phil.,
      • Oxford University,
      • 1980

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • President of the Association of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies,
      • 2001-2003
      • Trent Foundation award for Muslim Networks Workshop,
      • 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century,
      • spring 2001
      • Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary and International Studies award for Muslim Networks,
      • 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century,
      • spring 2001
      • “International Woman of 2001" Award,
      • 2001 International Biographical Centre (Cambridge),
      • 0 2001
      • Provost’s Fund award for Muslim Networks Project (with Bruce Lawrence),
      • Listed in Who’s Who in the World,
      • 0 1999
      • Fulbright Research Scholarship in Syria - "The Politics of Cultural Production",
      • 1995-6 September-June
      • Humanities Institute on Gender and War, Dartmouth College,
      • 0 1990
      • Violence and Post-Colonial Islam,
      • Harry F. Guggenheim Consultancy,
      • 0 1990
      • American Association of University Women Fellowship,
      • 0 1986
      • Duke University Research Council,
      • 0 1986
      • Social Science Research Council Scholarship,
      • 0 1986
      • Development of exchange program with University of Qadi Ayad in Marrakesh, Morocco,
      • Josiah Trent Foundation,
      • 0 1985
      • Fulbright Research Scholarship in Lebanon and Yemen,
      • 0 1982

  • Recent Publications

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      • "“Inside Dissident Syria”."
      • Al-Jazeera October 15, 2012
      • (2012)
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      • "• Feminism in Islam."
      • Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions.
      • 2012.
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      • "“Arab Feminist Research and activism: Bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical”."
      • Feminist Theory 2011 11:121
      • (2011)
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      • "“The Cell Story: Syrian Prison Stories after Hafiz Asad”."
      • in Middle East Critique vol. 20/2, 2011, 169-188
      • (2011)
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      • Nazira Zeineddine. Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer.
      • Oxford: Oneworld Press (part of Makers of the Muslim World Series),
      • 2010.
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