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Miriam Cooke
Miriam Cooke is Braxton Craven Professor Emerita of Arab Cultures at Duke University where she founded the Department of Asian & Middle East Studies and was founding director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar, and Istanbul. Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature, Arab women writers’ construction of Islamic feminism, contemporary Syrian and Khaliji cultures, and global Muslim networks. She is the author and co-editor of fifteen books, including Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf (2014).