Miriam Cooke

Datos Biográficos

ID3699159
NOMBREMiriam Cooke
NOMBRESMiriam
APELLIDOCooke
FIRMACOOKE M
AFILIACIONESDuke University
ORCID0000-0002-7428-8938
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS66
TOTAL DE CITAS75
TOTAL COMO AUTOR66
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1980
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H5

  • For My Mother, Nawal

    Mona Helmy, Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2023

    My mother, the most beautiful mother, passed on Mother’s Day, Sunday, March 21, 2021, at 12:30 p.m. in a hospital far from her daughter and son and her home and her pen and her intimate things.I visited Nawal in her Shubra apartment in October 2019. She had called me and asked me to come. When I arrived Mona was in the room next to her mother, distraught. We exchanged a few words. Three years later Mona shaped her emotions into these poems for an…

  • Protest in the Age of Cyberatomism

    Miriam CookeARTICLEProtest2022

    How can we account for the exponential increase in worldwide mass protests over the past twenty years? While protests are not new, their rate and size are. Today, thousands of people can be assembled instantaneously to demonstrate for or against a variety of causes that in the past might not have attracted more than a handful of people. The cultural and social conditions of the cyberage have accelerated the distribution of information that fuels …

  • The Daughter of Isis at Duke University

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2022

    When I heard the news that Sunday morning in late March, I had the same reaction that many expressed: bereavement. I lost my mentor, my friend, the woman who for more than half my life had inspired me to walk through fire.My next reaction was a sense of blessing. The blessing is that she is finally released from the terrible physical suffering that tortured her body for the last two years. She is no longer anguished about her physical inability t…

  • Nazira Zeineddine

    Open AccessMiriam CookeARTICLESociologias2022Referencias: 1

    For over forty years discussion and debate about the hijab had raged around the Muslim Arab world, and pitted conservatives against reformists within a political context shaped by European colonialism. In 1927 Syrian shaykhs announced that women must cover their faces. Women took to the streets, and a nineteen-year-old Druze woman from the Beirut bourgeoisie took to her desk. Quoting Islamic scriptures and contemporary religious and secular autho…

  • Nazira Zeineddine

    Open AccessMiriam CookeARTICLESociologias2022Referencias: 1

    Por mais de quatro décadas os debates sobre o hijab se alastravam pelo mundo árabe muçulmano, opondo conservadores e reformistas em um contexto político conformado pelo colonialismo europeu. Em 1927, os xeiques sírios decretaram que as mulheres deveriam cobrir o rosto. As mulheres saíram às ruas e uma jovem drusa de dezenove anos, Nazira Zeineddine, pertencente à burguesia de Beirute, sentou-se à escrivaninha. Escreveu quatrocentas páginas sobre …

  • Novel Traces of the Qur'an

    Miriam CookeARTICLENOVEL A Forum on Fiction2021

    Some say the Arab novel was born in 1913 with the publication of Egyptian Muhammad Husayn Haykal's Zaynab. But all firsts, of course, are contested. So others exhumed nineteenth-century exemplars, noting that their precursors are the tenth-century maqamat of Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadani thought to have influenced the emergence in the sixteenth century of the Spanish picaresque novel. Critics contemptuous of originary boasts declare the Egyptian Nobe…

  • Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2021

    Is the question mark in the title of Samara Anne Cahill’s book a clue, as it would be in a crossword puzzle? After finishing this thought-provoking survey of the role of Muslim stereotypes in shaping seventeenth- to nineteenth-century English writers’ arguments for and against the immortality of women’s souls, I read the punctuation mark as a joke or, better, an irony. Cahill is highlighting and deconstructing, as do the numerous works she analyz…

  • Displacement, War, and Exile in Simone Fattal’s Works and Days

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2020

    For fifty years the Sufi sculptor, writer, painter, and publisher Simone Fattal has honed her vision of the world and how it might be. Her social, political, and spiritual commitments shone through every one of the over two hundred objects on display at MoMA PS1 during the spring and summer of 2019.Born in Syria in 1942, Fattal moved to Lebanon as a young woman. She studied philosophy and threw herself into the life of Beirut, where intellectuals…

  • The Idea of the Tribe

    Miriam CookeCHAPTERTribal Modern: Branding New…2019

  • Murad vs. Isis

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2019Referencias: 6

    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, restorative justice. Held in sexual slavery between 2014 and 2015, Farida Khalaf and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad published testimonials that detail their experiences. Determined …

  • Egyptian Women’s Writings

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2017

    Less than forty years ago Arab women creative writers were virtually unknown at home and abroad. The two celebrated exceptions, the Syrian Colette Khoury and the Lebanese Layla Baalbaki, who had published some stories in the late 1950s, highlighted this absence. Then, in the mid-1970s, the situation began to change. In 1975 the Egyptian physician-activist-novelist Nawal El Saadawi, who had been publishing nonfiction since the late 1950s, brought …

  • Dancing in Damascus

    Miriam CookeBOOKDancing in Damascus2016

    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 against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. As of late 2015, almost 300,000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 million forced out of their homes. Nine million are i…

  • Dancing in Damascus

    Miriam CookeBOOKDancing in Damascus2016

    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 against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. As of late 2015, almost 300,000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 million forced out of their homes. Nine million are i…

  • Near Middle East/North Africa Studies

    Open AccessMiriam CookeCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Fatima Mernissi 1940–2015

    Open AccessMiriam CookeARTICLEReview of Middle East Studies2015

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  • Tribal Modern

    Miriam CookeBOOKTribal Modern: Branding New…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, 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 triba…

  • Recording World Wars

    Open AccessMiriam CookeARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…2014

    World War I inspired countless artists, poets, novelists, and even soldiers across the world to record their unimaginable experiences and to reject the millennial lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (it is sweet and appropriate to die for one's country). Early 20th-century European writers like Wilfred Owen, Virginia Woolf, Erich Maria Remarque, and Henri Barbusse have become household names. Less well known are the Arab civilians and soldi…

  • Tadmor's Ghosts

    Open AccessMiriam CookeARTICLEReview of Middle East Studies2013

    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 over a thousand died dreadful deaths. Despite his assertion in a cocky interview with Charlie Rose that he has not deployed his chemical arsenal, Bashar Al Assad is now apparently cooperating with …

  • Tadmor’s Ghosts

    Open AccessMiriam CookeARTICLEReview of Middle East Studies2013

    “You shall not escape us even while you sleep. Your victims’ vengeance will pursue you for blood... Even if you muzzle their complaints they will haunt you even as ghosts... You have poisoned the life of the people, wounded their souls... Wisdom at all times Is to destroy the jail Not to cut off the hand of the jailor. We have completed our little duty From now on we shall begin our great duty: This tyranny shall never recur” (Mamduh Adwan, The G…

  • The Cell Story

    Miriam CookeARTICLEMiddle East Critique2011Citada por: 3Referencias: 1

    Prison can be a key to creativity, but it can also be a trap. How could I write without exaggeration, without needing to convince the reader of the evil I had experienced? How could I prevent polit

  • Magical Realism in Libya

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2010Citada por: 1

    This essay argues that the writings of Libyan Ibrāhīm al-Kūnī, and particularly Nazīf 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 of a multi-generational struggle of a Touareg family with a legendary animal called a waddan. The last scion, he is taken on a trip to the border between the natural and the supernatural where …

  • Dialogue section

    Open AccessHoda Elsadda, Haideh Moghissi et al.ARTICLEFeminist Theory2010

  • Understanding the Contemporary Middle East

    Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Arthur Goldschmidt et al.BOOKUnderstanding the Contemporary…2008

  • Deploying the Muslimwoman

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Feminist Studies in…2008Citada por: 12Referencias: 1

    Deploying the Muslimwoman Miriam Cooke (bio) In Paris, Istanbul, Jakarta, Amsterdam, and Cairo, Muslim women are recalling anxieties that go back to the colonial era, when Muslim fundamentalists, Orientalists, and Muslim and non-Muslim states were arguing about what was right or wrong for Muslim women. So extreme is the concern with Muslim women today that veiled, and even unveiled, women are no longer thought of as individuals: collectively they…

  • Rejoinder to “Muslimwoman” Responses

    Miriam CookeARTICLEJournal of Feminist Studies in…2008

    Rejoinder to “Muslimwoman” Responses Miriam Cooke (bio) There are many situations, conditions, and identities that we recognize but cannot name. The lack of a name does not matter until it does; at that point, it becomes urgent to articulate succinctly what before had been dimly felt and poorly expressed. The process of naming is fraught: Does the name really explain anything? Does it have analytical value? Is it worth the effort of adopting a ne…