Miriam Cooke (she spells her name in lowercase) is an American academic in Middle Eastern and Arab world studies. She focuses on modern Arabic literature and critical reassessment of women's roles in the public sphere. She was educated in the United Kingdom,
and is co-editor of the ''
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
''Journal of Middle East Women's Studies'' is a triannual peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which advances Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies. It is published by Duke University Press for the Association for Middle East Women' ...
''.
She is a professor of modern
Arabic literature
Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from ...
and culture at
Duke University. She received her doctorate from the
St Antony's College, Oxford in 1980.
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Miriam Cooke Papers- Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
Year of birth missing (living people)
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American feminist writers
Historians of Arabic literature
Duke University faculty
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Islamic feminism
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