Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official

A study of the state-encouraged production of "dissident art" in Syria under the thirty-year authoritarian rule of Hafiz Asad, and the filmmakers, fiction writers, playwrights, and artists that contested their own appropriation.

miriam cooke is a professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University. Her books include Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature and Women and the War Story as well as the coedited collections Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop; Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing; and Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War.