OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is 1. 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
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	29
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	14
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	14
Examining the AKP’s military intervention and civil reconstruction policy in northwestern Syria from 2015 until 2024 through the lens of the Narrative Policy Framework	13
Embedded diaspora diplomacy and inward-facing mobilization: mapping the Yemeni diaspora in Türkiye	10
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	9
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn M	7
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	6
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	6
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	6
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	5
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	5
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	5
Drawing conclusions: Egyptian cartoon responses to Rabin’s assassination	4
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	4
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	4
Between revolution and tradition: Hassan Nasrallah’s rhetorical evolution and transnational alliances, 1982–2024	4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	3
Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activis	3
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	3
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	3
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	3
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	3

The power of the gift and the spirit of the tribe: how to win elections in Jordan	3
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran	3
Between tradition and progress: portraying nurses on Muslim countries postage stamps	3
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	3
Struggle for alliance: Russia and Iran in the era of war in Ukraine	2
Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Returning to Haifa : a contrapuntal analysis of adaptation	2
An hour of justice: elite trans-confessionalism in the Shihabi Emirate of Mount Lebanon, 1697–1861	2
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	2
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	2
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers	2
Review: Christianity and the Qur’an: the rise of Islam in Christian Arabia	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
Managing religion and religious changes in Iran: a socio-legal analysis	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza	2
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	2
Islamic contract law	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
The impact of language fragmentation on Kurdish literature: a case study of diasporic Kurdish women novelists writing in English	2
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	2
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	2
A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic , by Fatemeh Shams, Oxford, Oxford	2
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	2
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
Westophobia and the clash of civilizations rhetoric: a critical discourse analysis of misrepresented Western quotations in Arabic Islamic scholarship	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
China’s rise in the global south	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 ^th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days	1
Why anti-LGBTQIA+ law is supported in Iraq? An evidence from conjoint analysis	1
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1

Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
Visualizing ideology: a visual grammar analysis of sociocultural and gender representations in the Saudi film Mandoob (Night Courier)	1
Women of Komala, gender and revolution in Iranian Kurdistan	1
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes	1
Propagating the Young Turk Revolution to Izmir Armenians: Doctor Nazım and Enver Bey in Izmir	1
Slavery in the early Mughal world: the life and thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)	1
Narrating the story of subalterns in the third space: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and Lawrence Abu Hamdan	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
Israel as a ‘Democracy of Masters’: on the politics of an exclusive Jewish homeland	1
Hidden Arab water: transfer of Palestinians and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1948 and after	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1