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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Departing ‘Secularism’: boundary appropriation and extension of the Syrian state in the religious domain since 2011	8
Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture	7
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia	6
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul: provocative counterorganization, violent interpellation and sectarian fears	6
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics	6
The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP	5
Engendering hunger strikes: Palestinian women in Israeli prisons	5
Islamism and the rise of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia: claiming political Islam through other means?	5
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination	4
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts	4
Willpower: auto-ethnographic insights into the challenges that women encounter in academia	4
Queer counterpublics and LGBTQ pop-activism in Jordan	4
Ideology matters: cultural power in the case of Daesh	4
Negotiating patriarchal relationships to become economically active: an insight into the agency of Syrian refugee women in Jordan using frameworks of womanism and intersectionality	4
The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution	3
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	3
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz	3
Afghans in Iran: the state and the working of immigration policies	3
The armed struggle of the 1980s in Iranian Kurdistan: a space for survival	2
Israeli Military Education: Historical Overview of a Unique Phenomenon (1941-2004)	2
Political time and leadership in the Middle East: an analysis of 22 prominent leaders	2
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan	2
Political thinking performed: popular cultures as arenas of consent and resistance	2
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals	2
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia	2

Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran	2
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas	2
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon: a discursive and semiotic analysis	2
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran	2
When colonialism and nationalism meet - but speak a different language: the case of Haifa during the British Mandate	2
Active on the street but apathetic at the ballot box? Explaining youth voter behaviour in Tunisia’s new democracy	2
Constructing new Turkey’s desired worker: the denial of social class in the AKP era	2
Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: forms of capital approach	2
Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran	2
The Arab Rationalist Association and the turn to Nahḍah in contemporary Arab thought	2
Demographic analysis on social perceptions of Hijab in contemporary Iran: dimensions and determinants	2
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility	2
Sectarianism in the service of Salafism: Shiites as a political tool for Jordanian Salafis	2
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–2013	2
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?	2
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media	1
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi	1
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance	1
Returning the megaphone to the people: the Theatre of the Oppressed as artivism in the public space for a new critical citizenry in Morocco	1
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	1
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring	1
‘Just another story that was prepared in advance’ - political distrust, Islamism, and conspiratorial thinking in Arab public opinion on the Islamic State	1
Musical spirits and poetic tongues: oral traditions in the cultural politics of Kurdish intellectuals (1920s-1940s)	1
‘Revenge of the jobniks’? Soldier representation and resistance in contemporary Israeli popular culture	1
The Russo-Ottoman struggle over the support of the Muslims of Southern Caucasus in the 1890s	1
Baudrillard in Ankara: mainstream media and the production of simulacra in the Turkish public sphere	1
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: social justice and the rise of dystopian art and literature post-Arab Uprisings	1
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–2017	1
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	1
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications	1
The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative	1
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections	1
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	1
Space, place and consciousness; Explorations on Jewish identity in Amos Oz’s life narrative A Tale of Love and Darkness	1
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	1
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices	1
Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?	1
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars	1
Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects	1
Internet-mediated Islamist semiotics: policing memes and the R4BIA pizza effect	1
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation ( taṭbīr )	1
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	1
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
Political economies of the middle east and north Africa	1
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period	1
From brotherhood of the revolution to the struggle for power: analysis of the Libyan Civil War in the context of the security dilemma	1
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	1
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa	1

Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli	1
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution	1
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami	1
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran	1
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco	1
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses	1
The rise of hybrid political Islam in Turkey - origins and consolidation of the JDP	1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations	1
From ‘ yol ’ to diasporic Alevism: migration and religious change among Alevis in Britain	1
Alevism as Islam: rethinking Shahab Ahmed’s conceptualization of Islam through Alevi poetry	1
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change	1
The birth of a poetry of political criticism: the transformation that took place in the political verses of the Negev Bedouin at the close of the Ottoman period	1
Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa	1
175 years of persecution: a history of the Babis and Baha’is of Iran	1
Orchestrating Palestinian youth political socialization during theBritishMandate (1917-1948): policies and community responses	1
The cinema of the young Muslim Brothers: claiming a space in Egyptian pop culture	1