Background
Miriam Cooke was born on August 30, 1948 in Denver, Colorado, United States. She is a daughter of Hedley Vicars and Edit Cooke.
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
In 1971 Miriam Cooke received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh.
St. Antony's College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In 1980 Miriam Cooke obtained a Doctor of philosophy degree from St. Antony's College, Oxford.
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
In 1971 Miriam Cooke received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh.
St. Antony's College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In 1980 Miriam Cooke obtained a Doctor of philosophy degree from St. Antony's College, Oxford.
(By examining the writings of Lebanese women she calls the...)
By examining the writings of Lebanese women she calls the Beirut Decentrists, Miriam Cooke challenges the notion that only men write about war. Although of differing political and religious beliefs, it is these Decentrists--women bound by common exclusion from both the literary canon and social discourse--whose vision will rebuild shattered Lebanon. The author traces the transformation in consciousness that took place among women who observed and recorded the progress toward chaos in Lebanon.
https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Other-Voices-Lebanese-Cambridge/dp/0521341922/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=War%27s+Other+Voices%3A+Women+Writers+on+the+Lebanese+Civil+War&qid=1576754027&s=books&sr=1-1
1988
https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Gates-Century-Feminist-Writing/dp/0253205778/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Opening+the+Gates%3A+A+Century+of+Arab+Feminist+Writing&qid=1576754067&s=books&sr=1-1
1990
https://www.amazon.com/Gendering-Talk-Princeton-Legacy-Library/dp/0691633371/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Gendering+War+Talk%2C&qid=1576754107&s=books&sr=1-1
1993
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Story-Miriam-Cooke-1996-11-21/dp/B01K0V50WG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Women+and+the+War+Story+Cooke&qid=1576754954&s=books&sr=1-1
1997
(This provocative collection addresses the ways in which A...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Claim-Islam-Creating-Literature-ebook/dp/B000OI0RXS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Women+Claim+Islam%3A+Creating+Islamic+Feminism+through+Literature+Cooke&qid=1576755002&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
(Miriam Cooke’s melic prose animates the existence of each...)
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 Assin, the death of a son, and the establishment of the State of Israel; with Maryam we survive war and diaspora—the Suez War, the Intifada, the Iran-Iraq War, and the scattering of a family to three different countries. Finally, with the mute painter Araf’s rape, we experience the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and when Hibba returns to Jerusalem the circle is complete.
https://www.amazon.com/Hayati-My-Life-American-Writing-ebook/dp/B00TRDD3AA/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hayati%2C+My+Life&qid=1576755050&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
(Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the ro...)
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 reinforcing the others. This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim networks as the building blocks for Islamic identity and social cohesion.
https://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Networks-Hajj-Islamic-Civilization-ebook/dp/B00ZVEOJXE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Muslim+Networks%3A+From+Hajj+to+Hip+Hop&qid=1576755346&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(A renowned scholar of Arab cultures, Cooke spent six mont...)
A renowned scholar of Arab cultures, Cooke spent six months in Syria during the mid-1990s familiarizing herself with the country’s literary scene, particularly its women writers. While she was in Damascus, dissidents told her that to really understand life under Hafiz Asad, she had to speak with playwrights, filmmakers, and, above all, the authors of “prison literature.” She shares what she learned in Dissident Syria. She describes touring a sculptor’s studio, looking at the artist’s subversive work as well as at pieces commissioned by the government. She relates a playwright’s view that theater is unique in its ability to stage protest through innuendo and gesture. Turning to film, she shares filmmakers’ experiences of making movies that are praised abroad but rarely if ever screened at home. Filled with the voices of writers and artists, Dissident Syria reveals a community of conscience within Syria to those beyond its borders.
https://www.amazon.com/Dissident-Syria-Making-Oppositional-Official/dp/0822340356/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dissident+Syria%3A+Making+Oppositional+Arts+Official&qid=1576755394&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
(In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regio...)
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, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity - an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GO7C6M8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2014
(Dancing in Damascus traces the first four years of the Sy...)
Dancing in Damascus traces the first four years of the Syrian revolution and the activists’ creative responses to physical and emotional violence.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M01BVXX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2016
Miriam Cooke was born on August 30, 1948 in Denver, Colorado, United States. She is a daughter of Hedley Vicars and Edit Cooke.
In 1971 Miriam Cooke received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh. In 1980 she obtained a Doctor of philosophy degree from St. Antony's College, Oxford.
From 1980 to 1981 Miriam Cooke was a lecturer at Duke University, an assistant professor from 1981 to 1987, an associate professor from 1987 to 1993, and was appointed a professor of Arab culture in 1993. She served as a director of Asian and African languages and literature from 1988 to 1993 and a department chair from 1996 to 1999 there.
She has been a visiting professor at institutions all over the world, including the University of Bucharest, Tunis I University, and the University of Cape Town. The majority of Cooke's books are analyses of the works of female Arabic-language writers, especially those writers who address the wars that have been such a prominent part of the postcolonial Arabic world.
(This provocative collection addresses the ways in which A...)
2000(A renowned scholar of Arab cultures, Cooke spent six mont...)
2007(Dancing in Damascus traces the first four years of the Sy...)
2016(By examining the writings of Lebanese women she calls the...)
1988(In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regio...)
2014(Miriam Cooke’s melic prose animates the existence of each...)
2000(Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the ro...)
2005Miriam cooke is a member of the Modern Language Association of America.
On April 24, 1983 Miriam Cooke married Bruce Bennett Lawrence.
