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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces *What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p*	22
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	13
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	9
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	9
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	9
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A	9
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	5
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	5
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	4
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	4
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	4
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	4
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	4
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	4
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
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran	3
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–2017	3
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	3
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	3
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	3
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	3
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	3
Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring , by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John O. Voll, Oxford, Oxford University Press	3

Managing religion and religious changes in Iran: a socio-legal analysis	2
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	2
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	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
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis **Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis** , by Siniša Malešev	2
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers	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
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	2
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
An Ottoman mission to Tehran: Mehmed Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Tehran and the re-making of Perso-Ottoman relations (1876-1897)	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	2
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence *Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence* , by M	2
The impact of language fragmentation on Kurdish literature: a case study of diasporic Kurdish women novelists writing in English	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Slavery in the early Mughal world: the life and thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)	1
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French:	1
Hidden Arab water: transfer of Palestinians and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1948 and after	1
Israel as a ‘Democracy of Masters’: on the politics of an exclusive Jewish homeland	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 ^th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death	1
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	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey *States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey*	1
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics	1
Women of Komala, gender and revolution in Iranian Kurdistan	1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1

Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	1
China’s rise in the global south	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran *Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran*	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship *The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship*	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar *Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar*	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1