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Miriam Cooke papers (Ms.2014.019)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Personal and Biographical, 1970-2015

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 Award: Duke University 35 years of service
English.
2015
Box 2, Folder 2 Award: Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund
English.
2006
Box 2, Folder 3 Interview with Cooke in Sapina Newsletter re: Gulf War
English.
1991
Box 2, Folder 4 Photos of Cooke
English.
1970-2001
Box 2, Folder 5 Print purchased in Bethlehem
English.
1982

Series 2. Career Development, 1992-2011

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 6 Rockefeller Foundation: letters of recommendation for Cooke by others
English.
1992
Box 2, Folder 7 Qatar Islamic Art Museum: agreement, agendas, and proposals
English.
2004-2011
Box 2, Folder 8 Qatar Islamic Art Museum: CDs
English.
2010
Box 2, Folder 9 Qatar Islamic Art Museum: clippings and booklets
English, Arabic.
2010-2011
Box 2, Folder 10 Qatar Islamic Art Museum: correspondence
English.
2006-2010
Box 2, Folder 11 Qatar Islamic Art Museum: flyers
English.
circa 2010

Series 3. Administrative, 1981-2017

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 12 Agenda: Modern Language Association Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibility
English.
2010
Box 1, Folder 8 Clippings re: Women's Faculty Network, Duke University
English.
1989-1991
Box 1, Folder 35 Correspondence
1987-2014
Box 2, Folder 13 Correspondence re: fellowships and grants
English.
1981-1985
Box 1, Folder 25 Correspondence re: "Kosovo Backgrounder: Sexual Violence as International Crime"
English.
1999
Box 2, Folder 14 Correspondence re: various topics including schedules and general professional conversation
English.
1982-2015
Box 1, Folder 17 Correspondence with Nawal El Saadawi
circa 1985
Box 1, Folder 4 Correspondence with Roger Allen regarding Al-Arabiyya Special 20th Anniversary
1987
Box 1, Folder 32 Meeting materials: Modern Language Association Committee on Academic Freedom Professional Right and Responsibilities
English.
2008
Box 1, Folder 19 Newsletter: Society for African Philosophy in North America
English.
1991
Box 1, Folder 3 Pamphlet: Morocco At Duke, Moroccan Cultural Festival
English.
1985
Box 1, Folder 36 Press Clippings
1982-2014
Box 2, Folder 15 Programs for various events
English.
2017

Series 4. Conferences, 1983-2017

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 16 Bridges not Walls: The Healing Power of Literature in the Middle East and South Asia: agenda
English.
2017
Box 2, Folder 17 Colloque Malaise dans la Liberte: program
French.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 18 Dissident Subjects: A Conference in Honor of Miriam Cooke: program and flyer
English.
2017
Box 1, Folder 21 Gender and War: conference materials
English.
1993
Box 2, Folder 19 Professionalism among Women: Malaysians and Americans; includes clippings, correspondence, and handwritten notes
English, Arabic.
1983
Box 2, Folder 20 Magic in Clarity: teaching Arabic Literature; includes agenda, correspondence, and "Arab Women Writers, 1980-2010" by Cooke
English.
2010
Box 2, Folder 21 Mediterranean Identities: agenda and "Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism" by Cooke
English.
2011
Box 2, Folder 22 Rape and War: schedule
English.
2016
Box 1, Folder 26 Tunisia Women's Studies Conference: notes
English.
2000
Box 2, Folder 23 Untitled conference re: Saudi women's literature; includes agenda, articles, and correspondence
English, Arabic.
1999
Box 1, Folder 39 Various conferences, seminars, and colloquia
English.
1996-2000
Box 2, Folder 24 Various conferences: programs
English.
2012-2016
Box 2, Folder 25 War and Gender; includes correspondence, handwritten notes, and papers
English.
1993
Box 2, Folder 26 War and Gender; includes correspondence, handwritten notes, and participants list
English.
1992-1994
Box 2, Folder 27 Women and Gender in the Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Assessment of Theory and Research: agenda
English.
2001
Box 2, Folder 28 Women and War in the Middle East: annotated agenda
English.
1990
Box 1, Folder 18 Women in International Development: working papers
English.
1989

Series 5. Teaching, 1983-2000

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 29 Accelerated Arabic Instruction to Talented Youth; includes talk and lecture notes
English.
1983
Box 2, Folder 30 Advanced Arabic: syllabus
English.
1990
Box 2, Folder 31 Arab Culture and 9/11: syllabus
English.
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 20 Gender and War: course materials and syllabi
English.
1992-2003
Box 2, Folder 32 Mediterranean Lives: syllabus
English.
2000
Box 2, Folder 33 Modern Arabic Literature: syllabus
English.
1989
Box 2, Folder 34 Strategies of Comparative Analysis: syllabus and correspondence
English.
1988
Box 1, Folder 38 Unidentified course: lecture notes
English.
1998
Box 2, Folder 35 Various courses: teaching evaluations
English.
circa 1990-1991
Box 2, Folder 36 Women in Arabic Literature: syllabus
English.
1985, 1992

Series 6. Writings, 1966-2015

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 37 Article [?]: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī: annotated typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 38 Article [?]: Etel Adrian: Literary Reflections: typed draft
English.
1986
Box 1, Folder 40 Article: Islamic Feminism Before and After September 11th
English.
2002
Box 2, Folder 39 Article [?]: Machines de Guerro en temps de Printemps Arabe: annotated typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 31 Article [?]: "Muslimkvinnan GAR Sin Egen Vag" in Neo Magazine; includes correspondence re: Islamism in Europe Conference
Swedish.
2007
Box 1, Folder 29 Article: Near Middle East/North African Studies
English.
2001
Box 2, Folder 40 Article: The New Perspective on the French Riviera: typed draft
English.
1980
Box 2, Folder 41 Article: Revolutionary Narratives: Nawal El Saadawi and Samar Yazbek: annotated typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 42 Article [?]: untitled re: Nazira; includes typed draft and correspondence
English.
2008
Box 2, Folder 43 Article [?]: The Village of Mourjou: A Social Survey of a Village Community in the Auvergne Provence of France: typed draft, photo, and handwritten notes
English.
1966
Box 2, Folder 44 Book: Blood Into Ink: correspondence
English.
1993-1994
Box 2, Folder 45 Book: Blood Into Ink: reprint permissions
English.
1988-1994
Box 1, Folder 28 Book: Hayati, My Life: A Novel: "History via the Unconscious in Miriam Cooke's Hayati," article by Hager Ben Driss
English.
2002
Box 1, Folder 27 Book: Hayati, My Life: A Novel: manuscript and comments
English.
1993-1999
Box 1, Folder 5 Book: War's Other Voices: interviews with Lebanese women writers
English.
1980-1982
Box 1, Folder 24 Edited work: Gendering War Talk: correspondence and publication materials
English.
1991-1993
Box 1, Folder 22 Edited work: Gendering War Talk: Dartmouth Institute notes and proposal
English.
1988-1990
Box 1, Folder 23 Edited work: Gendering War Talk: materials and correspondence from authors
English.
1991
Box 1, Folder 37 Edited work: Gendering War Talk: "Soundings" Interview cassette
English.
1993
Box 2, Folder 46 Edited work: Global Voices: correspondence
English.
1994-1995
Box 1, Folder 12 Edited work: Opening the Gates: correspondence with authors
English.
1984-1988
Box 1, Folder 9 Edited work: Opening the Gates: correspondence with Margot Badran
English.
1984-1990
Box 1, Folder 11 Edited work: Opening the Gates: correspondence with Marilyn Booth
English.
1986-1988
Box 1, Folder 16 Edited work: Opening the Gates
Arabic, German.
1970s1980s1990s
Box 1, Folder 10 Edited work: Opening the Gates: planning documents for symposium and book
English.
1984-1986, unknown
Box 1, Folder 15 Edited work: Opening the Gates: reviews
English.
1990-1991
Box 1, Folder 14 Edited work: Opening the Gates: reviews of collections of ethnic women's literature
English.
1987-1988
Box 1, Folder 13 Edited work: Opening the Gates: unpublished material
English.
circa 1980s
Box 1, Folder 33 Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews written by Cooke
English.
1983-2008
Box 2, Folder 47 Obituary for Fatima Mernissi: handwritten draft
English.
circa 2015
Box 2, Folder 48 Review: Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature by Dalya Abudi
English.
2011
Box 2, Folder 49 Review: Standing by the Ruins by Ken Seigneurie
English.
2012
Box 2, Folder 50 Talk [?]: Academic Freedom: The "Danger" of Critical Thinking: typed draft, clippings, and correspondence
English.
circa 2007
Box 2, Folder 51 Talk: Arab Women Writers in the Twentieth Century: flyer in Arabic
Arabic.
2006
Box 1, Folder 1 Talk: "Le Billet"
English.
1983
Box 2, Folder 52 Talk: Breaking News: Track 71: Europe and the Refugee Crisis: flyer and handwritten talking points
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 53 Talk: Choreographing Trauma: annotated typed draft
English.
2015
Box 2, Folder 54 Talk: Citizenship in Lebanon: typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 55 Talk: Culture Degree Zero: Postmodern War Imagery: typed draft and handwritten notes
English.
1990
Box 2, Folder 56 Talk: The End of the "Situation:" typed draft
English.
circa 1980
Box 2, Folder 57 Talk: Middle Eastern Autobiography: typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 58 Talk: Muslim Women's Networks: A New Face on an Established Practice: annotated typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 59 Talk: Narrating Palestine and Lebanon at War: typed draft and correspondence re: The Arab Novel Conference
English.
2001
Box 2, Folder 60 Talk: The Networked Mediterranean: Creating Medizen Subjectivity: typed draft and itinerary
English.
2013
Box 2, Folder 61 Talk: La Pensee Mediterraneenne: typed draft
French.
2000
Box 2, Folder 62 Talk: Response to Fred's "Does World Literature Have a Foreign Office:" typed draft
English.
2008
Box 2, Folder 63 Talk: Sex and the State: typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 64 Talk: Ungendering Peace Talk: annotated typed draft
English.
2014
Box 2, Folder 65 Talk: unidentified title: handwritten draft in Arabic
Arabic.
1980
Box 2, Folder 66 Talk: various handwritten drafts of talks delivered in Budapest
English.
circa 1998
Box 2, Folder 67 Talk: Western Ignorance of Arab Women Writers: contains article about this talk in Al-Waset Magazine [does not include talk]
Arabic.
1992
Box 2, Folder 68 Talk: Women and the Arab Spring: A Transnational, Feminist Revolution: typed draft
English.
2014
Box 2, Folder 69 Talk [?]: Women Writers in Israel and the West Bank: typed draft
English.
1982
Box 1, Folder 2 Translation: The Anatomy of An Egyptian Intellectual: correspondence, translations, and reviews
English.
1981-1996
Box 2, Folder 70 Translation: Bait At-Taca: House of Obedience: typed draft
English.
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 34 Translation: "The Miracle" by Yusuf Idris
English.
undated
Box 2, Folder 71 Translations of Arabic short stories
English.
n.d.

Series 7. Research, 1989-2006

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 1 Handwritten and typed notes for War's Other Voices and Women and the War Story (1 of 2)
English.
n.d.
Box 3, Folder 2 Handwritten and typed notes for War's Other Voices and Women and the War Story (2 of 2)
English.
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 6 Notes re: Human Values, Postmodern Wars, Not So Quiet
English.
circa 1989
Box 1, Folder 30 Notes re: Jakarta and Indonesia
English.
2006
Box 1, Folder 7 Notes re: Literary Reflections on Women's Participation in Wars in Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine
English.
1989

Series 8. Audio and Video Recordings, 1990-2007

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 3 Cassette tape: "B. Volume Discussion"
English.
May 29, 1990
Box 3, Folder 3 Cassette tape: "Gendering War Talk"
English.
1990
Box 3, Folder 3 Cassette tape: "Miriam's Session"
English.
April 25, 1990
Box 3, Folder 4 CD: "Muslim Dialogues Pennsylvania Inside Out"
English.
2007
Box 3, Folder 5 VHS tape: "Cooke Organizer and Chair"
English.
October 1995
Box 3, Folder 5 VHS tape: "Nation, Identities, Cultures tape #9"
English.
October 29, 1993
Box 3, Folder 6 VHS tape: "Saadawi Interview"
English.
December 9, 1993
Box 3, Folder 6 VHS tape: "Women and Human Rights in the Middle East"
English.
November 13, 1993