OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Middle Eastern Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability	6
Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity,	5
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union	4
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity	4
The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood	3
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante	3
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 2006	3
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire	3
Examples from Ottoman Tanzimat literature of the representation of women: modernisation and anti-colonial approaches	3
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 1899	3
Refounding the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia from Islamism and Wahhabism to ‘Moderate’ Islam	3
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)	3
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)	3
The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis	2
From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices	2
Prize announcement	2
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture	2
Revolutionizing the past: representations of the Mamluks in Egyptian school textbooks, 1954–1970	2
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois	2
Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza: a multilateral move under unilateral façade	2
Israel and the Gulf monarchies: a new Regional Security Complex or just complex regional security?	2
Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire	2
Hereditary succession in the mütevelli office: the case of the Menteşe region (1913–1920)	2
MI6’s hidden hand in Syria and the early Cold War in the Middle East 1944–1947: Part I	2
UAE book review	2

Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa	2
The concept of the individual in early republican intellectual discourse: an analysis of Hayat journal (1926–1929)	2
Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 1949	2
Beyond the usual suspects – bringing in Kuwait’s Shiʿi Islamists	2
Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic	2
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze	2
Mollā Nasreddin: the making of a modern trickster (1906-1911)	2
The old elite against the new state: the fall of the Kıbrıslızade family and their struggle with the Committee of Union and Progress	2
An analytical study of ethnic identity components in the works of contemporary Kurdish painters in Iranian Kurdistan from 1981–2019	2
Re-examining the Foundations of US–Gulf relations	2
Between the sacred and the profane: conflicts between football and sharia in Iran	2
The Bedouins in Palestine during the Egyptian occupation 1831–1840	1
On Shaky Ground: Iran between Israel and Pan-Arabism, 1930s–1970s	1
After the 1933 revolt, Nestorians’ search for a homeland outside Iraq (1933–1936)	1
Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem , by Graham Addison	1
Oman book review	1
Representing the Coptic community: the Communal Council and the road to the 1911 Coptic Congress	1
Cyprus’s relations with Egypt and Israel during the Makarios era: influence of regional disputes, economy, socio-cultural interactions and UN debates	1
Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution	1
Passive, peripheral pariahs: problematizing Arab press perspectives on the Palestinian citizens of Israel	1
Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952)	1
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar	1
Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–1939	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Mapping linguistic change: continuity and decline among Kurdish and Greek speakers in Republican Turkey, 1927–1965	1
Iranian communists and the Palestine question (1947–1956)	1
Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt	1
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 1860	1
Planning mobility across regimes: the Hijaz Railway and the electric tramway in Damascus from the late Ottoman to the Mandate era, 1900–1940	1
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers	1
Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission	1
Between parliamentary control and fiscal discipline: the General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25 (1925) on the eve of Pahlavi rule	1
National mission or a ‘civilizing mission’? Birthrates, perceptions, and East–West relations in Mandatory Palestine	1
Nuclear topsy turvy: the security-economics nexus in Turkish-American relations	1
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine	1
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords	1
Segregation in Mandatory Jerusalem and economic interests	1
Noah’s Ark, Nebuchadnezzar’s seed, and the prince of Malabar: the curious and bizarre life of John Joseph Nouri	1
The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship	1
The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdul Koudous and Gamal Abdel Nasser	1
Leftism at an Islamic school: indoctrinating the youth at Saida’s Makassed Islamic Secondary	1
A reply by David Tal	1
‘We Want the shariʿa ’: an ironic polemic on religion and politics in the Ottoman press during the Second Constitutional Era	1
Darwin in the Dar al-Funun: the translation, adaptation, and contestation of evolutionary theory in Qajar Iran (1851–1906): a comprehensive analysis of scientific knowledge transfer and political tran	1
Lorimer: His Gazetteer and Britain’s Pursuit of Knowledge	1
Responding to the Arab Revolt: the Circassian Volunteer Cavalry and the defence of Ottoman Transjordan in the First World War	1
Critically assessing the contours of relations between the AKP and Islamic movements after the July 15 coup attempt: the Furkan Vakfi case	1
The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts	1
Fuelling Empire: the British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886–1945	1
‘Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War	1

The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s	1
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–1842	1
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)	1
Reassessing the regional political system: the changing role of Israel and Palestine in the strategic narratives of Gulf states expressed in the UN Security Council (2020–2024)	1
Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans	0
Professionalizing the diplomatic service: financial entitlements in the late Ottoman Empire	0
Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause	0
The eternal enemy: trends in coverage of Israel in the Egyptian national press during the first decade of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule	0
Buzzing vectors: mosquitoes, swamps, and public health in Istanbul (1875–1925)	0
The ‘Lahore shawl’ in Ottoman Turkish literature	0
Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement,	0
The Millî Görüş movement’s view on Muslims in the West: Turkish migration to Germany as a case study	0
Tarih ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Perspektifinden Türk-Yunan İlişkileri 1821–2021	0
The National Pact project predicting the security of Anatolia from a Turkish perspective and the intensifying Turkish-British rivalry in Northern Iraq (1920–1926)	0
The Decline of Empires in South Asia	0
Legalising animal compensation in the Ottoman Empire: rinderpest control and public health reform in a late imperial context	0
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)	0
Traces of fear, ‘tracking, surveillance, reporting’: spies in Late Ottoman Modernisation Literature	0
Brazilian foreign policy towards Iran and the UAE (2011–2025)	0
Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–38	0
Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: Diplomacy, discord and international relations; Turkey’s changing transatlantic relations; Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the	0
Observations of the first Turkish journalists visiting the People’s Republic of China: the case of Akşam newspaper	0
A persistent opponent in the late Ottoman period: Abdurrezzak Effendi from Baghdad and the Intikad newspaper	0
Change of the built environment in Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period (1840–1917)	0
The making of medical governance in Muhammad Ali’s Egypt (1827–1850)	0
Industrial Policy in Turkey: rise, Retreat and Return	0
The Soviet Union’s counteraction to Britain’s ‘hidden hand’ in Syria and the early Cold War in the Middle East, 1944–1947: Part II	0
The dynamics of Détente: Greece’s support for Turkey’s accession to the League of Nations, 1930 − 1932	0
A propaganda and news backwater: the Foreign Office’s information policy in the Persian Gulf, c. 1948–1960	0
The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952-1971	0
Sculpting the leader and making the nation; Atatürk monuments and statues in the early Republican period	0
UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition	0
George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period	0
Liberalization of the sodium nitrate trade in the late Ottoman Empire and the activities of the Ottoman branch of the Chilean nitrate producers company, 1908–1914	0
Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment	0
Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey	0
Young woman, daughter, mother: female soldiers killed in battle during Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949)	0
Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt	0
The Circassian question: liberalism and the pursuit of freedom in the mid-nineteenth century	0
Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East	0
A subject of dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the American Bible Society in the early 1900s: the Bible colportage	0
The formation of the UAE: state-building and Arab nationalism in the Middle East	0
Indian Diaspora in the Persian Gulf States: History, Communities and Bilateral Relations	0
A typological study in the light of British and Ottoman archival documents: Emanuel Falkeisen	0
Sharqzadegi, or how Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution became Islamic	0
Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People	0
A staff officer without an empire: Yusuf al ʿAzma (1884–1920) and the collapse of the late Ottoman military order	0
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022	0
The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965)	0
The forgotten revolution of 1876: medrese students and the Ottoman dream of democracy	0
Egypt: a fragile power	0
Crime, poverty and survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the ‘dangerous classes’ since 1800	0
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanjı̇ and the Mosul question: borders, identity and sovereignty in the Anglo-Turkish rivalry	0
Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey	0
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity	0
The Ottoman Chamber of Commerce, Manchester	0
The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia	0
Juhayman al-Otaibi and the interpretation of the first violent Islamic movement in contemporary Saudi Arabia	0
The journal of Hayat (life) and the life of a nation: the intellectual landscape and reform in early Republican Turkey	0
Open source intelligence: newspapers and the Ottoman Intelligence Department in the First World War	0
Civil society and education in Turkey: the relations between the Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Imam Hatip Schools (1951-1976)	0
Punishment of the crime of defloration ( izale-i bikr ) and forensic expert witness practices in the Ottoman Empire (1847–1861)	0
Rethinking Soviet–Iranian relations during the oil nationalization crisis, 1951–1953	0
Reconstructing the caliphate or bringing liberal democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş’s view on liberal democracy before reaching power	0
Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–1900	0
Identity disputes in occupied Istanbul: was Istanbul to become a Turkish city or remain a Turkish city?	0
Revolutionaries on revolutionaries: how Chinese Xinhai revolutionaries and Young Turks viewed each other	0
Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-1967	0
Arab-Jewish ‘neighbourly relations’ in rural Mandatory Palestine: the case of Khirbat ʿAzzun – Raʿanana	0
New money in old Tripoli	0
The battle over the Zionist maritime ethos: ‘Sea Day’ and claims to the Land of Israel’s sea culture	0
United in opposition, deviating in vision: the diverse response to the Islamic State’s caliphate	0
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps: Defining Iran’s Military Doctrine	0
Religious authority and sunnism in the politics of Sultan Abdulhamid II	0
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon	0
Where revolutions take shape: the Hosseiniyeh Ershad as a catalyst for the Islamic Revolution of Iran	0
The role of Cyprus in the process of the Armenian Question	0
Power and light, profit and loss: the establishment and operation of the Damascus Electricity and Tramway Company, 1903-1914	0
The ‘villa in the jungle’ nuclear paradigm: Israel’s nuclear narrative and practice in a changing regional security complex	0
Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history	0

Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial	0
Contemporary Oman: The Sultan, the People, and the Legacy of Peace	0
Nâzım Hikmet, ‘Night/Doctor Faust’s House’ and biographical criticism	0
The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder	0
An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire	0
The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’	0
Between the ‘Mother of the Sons’ and October 7: the motherhood trap in Israeli public discourse	0
Kuwait’s ʿAjam merchants: a transnational community (1896–1950)	0
Allies or foes: the interplay between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood following Egypt’s 2011 uprising (2011–2021)	0
Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran: The End of Informal Empire, 1941–1953	0
‘He is living Israeli flag’: The Right and the Presidency in Israel under Chaim Weizmann, 1948–1952	0
The engineer rebuilding the empire: the contributions of Mr Ritter to the modernization of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1878)	0
Patriotism as a sacred duty: the religious construction of homeland in Vatan Yahut Silistre and Memê Alan	0
Contingent resistance: the Liberation Movement of Iran-Abroad, Nasser’s Egypt and transnational guerrilla activism	0
Exile practices applied to prostitution in the late Ottoman Empire and the voice of Minoş	0
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar – a man of melancholy	0
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement: the case of ‘Jerusalem Rebuilt’	0
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan	0
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın – an introduction to his life and works	0
More Catholic than the Pope: Turkish competition with ‘little Russia’ in Libya, 1953–1957	0
‘A pretty bad reputation’: reflections of ‘the 31 March incident’ on Ottoman Syria, its background, and its immediate consequences	0
The rise and fall of the Turkish cigarette paper industry: the example of merchant Nikolaki Seferoğlu	0
An Ottoman statesman’s early career: the appointment of Mustafa Reşit Bey (Pasha) to the amedi chamber and his role in the Treaty of Kütahya	0
Between God and the Party: Fadlallah and the antithetical notion of Hezbollah	0
An analysis of the literary foundations of Occidentalist rhetoric in Turkey	0
Encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) in Türkiye after the First World War	0
Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation	0
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State	0
Regimes of mobility: borders and state formation in the middle East, 1918–1946	0
Between empire and nation-state: debating and formulating nationality in post-First World War Turkey, 1918–1922	0
Audience as a forum for identity: ‘Ottoman’ culture as complementary to Greek and European cultures in Adamantios Korais’s identity	0
The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s struggle for educational influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955–69	0
The discursive construction of the Auspicious Incident in *Üss-i Zafer* : purification, legitimacy, and	0
The Karapapaks and their shifting loyalties on the imperial borderlands during the nineteenth century	0
Spaces of transition: Kantarcılar as a microcosm of urban change in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Saudi Arabia: A modern history	0
Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–1915	0
Recovering the Ottoman waqf : the reconfiguration of Ottoman-Islamic intellectual culture in twentieth-century Istanbul	0
'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023	0
Rethinking the Turkish socialist left’s perceptions of the US and USSR after the Second World War: an analysis of leftist publications	0
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı and the literary backdrop of his times	0
Playing with ‘the Great Satan’: the football diplomacy behind the 1998 and 2000 Iran–USA matches	0
The construction of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Siirt: minority policies and spatial representation in the Ottoman provinces	0
‘I have come to seek freedom’: enslavement and escape in the Aden Protectorates, 1937-1949	0
Mapping the role of intellectuals in Iranian modern and contemporary history	0
State-building and settlement in Ottoman Transjordan: the birth of Amman as a frontier city (1878–1908)	0
How extremists carved out a moderate position: the resident other in centrist ( wasatiyya ) Islamic discourse since the Arab Spring uprisings	0
The rise of nationalised, religious education in Turkey from the 1950s to the 1970s	0
Passwords in the Ottoman military in the nineteenth century: a political and social analysis	0
Prize announcement	0
‘If we take them to the military, where can we deploy them?’ Non-Muslim soldiers during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)	0
False Prophets: British leaders’ fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria	0
Turkish anti-Americanism: between Europe and the Middle East	0
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War	0
Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review	0
Medical illustration as a mirror of change: a comparative analysis of two Ottoman anatomy textbooks	0
The geopolitics of the 1950s and the making of Kuwait’s pan-Arab foreign policy	0
Fields into houses: local actors, society, and the making of a new urban landscape in Tarlabaşı and Tatavla in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
The Org. Gehlen/BND and German military and civilian experts in the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s	0
Local government reform in Turkey and its aftermath: the urban transformation of Istanbul between 1984 and 1989	0
‘The powerful arrows’ – an unknown nineteenth century fatwa against the Nusayri-Alawi sect in Syria	0
The Palestine Commission: the forgotten chapter in United Nations peacemaking and peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli conflict	0
Revisiting normalization dynamics between the Gulf Cooperation Council and Israel from ‘other’ to ‘regional partner’?	0
Rethinking the salons in nineteenth-century Istanbul houses conceptualised in written media	0
Correction	0
In search of a common enemy: Russo-Turkish cooperation and its discontents (1908–1923)	0
International politics in Turkish Islamism during the Cold War, 1947–1964	0
The Ottoman Government crisis of 10–13 February 1909 and the press reaction	0
The Arabian Mission and education in Bahrain: ‘encounter’ and ‘resistance’, 1892–1917	0
Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran	0
Common values, different interests: early Israeli-Swedish cooperation on development aid to Africa	0
‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 1803	0
Midhat Cemal Kuntay – a man of many parts	0
The Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate, 1924: Debates and Implications	0
An unknown crossroads: Israel, the Palestinians and the Christians in Lebanon (1968–1970)	0
Social class and political participation in the GCC: the case of Kuwait	0
The religious foundations of the Iran Civil and Penal Codes (1927–1935)	0
A war waiting to happen: How Menachem Begin and his administrations paved the way to the 1982 Lebanon war	0
Freemasonry’s political and diplomatic entanglements in the last phase of Ottoman history: the peculiar case of the Committee of Union and Progress	0
Shibli Shumayyil, Social Darwinism and Zionism	0
Debates on the legitimacy of family foundations in the shadow of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman centralization policies	0
Socio-musical convergence and interaction in Direklerarası: commercialization of music in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Philanthropists and aid recipients of the Topkapı Philanthropic Society in the Unionist social context (1908–1918)	0
Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)	0
Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: a study of Under the Sky of ISIS and The Yazidi Exodus	0
The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–1967	0
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)	0
Ottoman land registration practices in B’ir al-sabʿ (Beersheba) as a case of transition to private property and their reflections in the Mandate period	0
Critical Jewish heritage and memory in Tehran: funerary spaces, aesthetics, and preservation	0
Selânikli Tevfik – writer, journalist, translator	0
Imperial governance and refugee agency in the late Ottoman Empire the Batum–Akçaabat (Trabzon) migration after the Russo-Ottoman War (1877–1882)	0
Negotiating antiquity in the late Ottoman Empire: foreign researchers, bureaucratic structures and the case of Binbirkilise	0
Salafism in Lebanon: the significance of Fathi Yakan and Al-Jamaʿa Al-Islamiyya	0
From historical bloc to mediating party: the political and class-consolidation of the Israeli right during the recession of 1966–1967	0
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire	0