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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sovereign risk: Gulf sovereign wealth funds as engines of growth and political resource	16
The ‘rentier mentality’, 30 years on: evidence from survey data	11
Climate action versus inaction: balancing the costs for Gulf energy exporters	11
The Myth of Turkish Islam: the influence of Naqshbandi-Gümüşhanevi thought in Turkish Islamic orthodoxy	10
The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines: a critical discourse analysis	8
Introduction: revisiting rentierism—with a short note by Giacomo Luciani	8
Mollā Nasreddin and the creative Cauldron of Transcaucasia	8
Departing ‘Secularism’: boundary appropriation and extension of the Syrian state in the religious domain since 2011	7
ISIS genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East	6
Can a rentier state evolve to a production state? An ‘institutional upgrading’ approach	6
Authoritarianism in the information age: state branding, depoliticizing and ‘de-civilizing’ of online civil society in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates	5
Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture	5
Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum: political parties, opportunity and timing	5
Youth and political engagement in post-revolution Tunisia	5
The AKP, party system change, and political representation by women in Turkey	4
De facto states engagement with parent states: Kurdistan’s engagement with the Iraqi Government	4
The inter-Islamic competition and the shift in al-Nur party stance towards civil state in Egypt	4
The Iraqi protest movement: social mobilization amidst violence and instability	4
Listening in from afar: the BBC Arabic service and the Bahrain radio listeners’ committee, 1938–1943	4
Egyptian foreign policy after the 2011 revolution: the dynamics of continuity and change	4
Stagnation Vs adaptation: tracking the Muslim Brotherhood’s trajectories after the 2013 coup	4
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics	4
Solidarity theologies and the (re)definition of ethnoreligious identities: the case of the Alevis of Turkey and Alawites of Syria	4
The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP	3
Ideology matters: cultural power in the case of Daesh	3

From critical to comprehensive dialogue: the effectiveness of the EU’s policy towards Iran (1992-1998)	3
Queer counterpublics and LGBTQ pop-activism in Jordan	3
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination	3
Willpower: auto-ethnographic insights into the challenges that women encounter in academia	3
A past to be forgotten? Writing Ottoman history in early republican Turkey	3
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	3
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul: provocative counterorganization, violent interpellation and sectarian fears	3
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia	2
Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018: A Discursive-Institutional Study	2
Blackface in Egypt: the theatre and film of Ali al-Kassar	2
Revisiting multilateralism in the Middle East between securitization and desecuritization of the Kurds	2
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?	2
The Arab Rationalist Association and the turn to Nahḍah in contemporary Arab thought	2
Islamism and the rise of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia: claiming political Islam through other means?	2
Sectarianism in the service of Salafism: Shiites as a political tool for Jordanian Salafis	2
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia	2
Negotiating patriarchal relationships to become economically active: an insight into the agency of Syrian refugee women in Jordan using frameworks of womanism and intersectionality	2
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran	2
The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution	2
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals	2
Turkey’s July 15th coup: what happened and why	2
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz	2
Islam and existentialism in Turkey during the Cold War in the works of Sezai Karakoç	1
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–2017	1
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media	1
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa	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
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco	1
Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran	1
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon: a discursive and semiotic analysis	1
The rise of hybrid political Islam in Turkey - origins and consolidation of the JDP	1
Musical spirits and poetic tongues: oral traditions in the cultural politics of Kurdish intellectuals (1920s-1940s)	1
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility	1
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change	1
Political economies of the middle east and north Africa	1
Arab women’s activism and socio-political transformation: unfinished gendered revolutions	1
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period	1
State religious authorities in rentier economies and the management of independent Islamism	1
175 years of persecution: a history of the Babis and Baha’is of Iran	1
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance	1
British policy towards Iran 1809-1914: the question of cost	1
On Palestinian Yiddish and Ashkenazi Arabic in 18-19 century Palestine: a language-oriented new look on Jewish-Arab relations	1
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices	1
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan	1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations	1
‘Reform dissonance’ in the modern rentier state: how are divergent economic agendas affecting state-business relations in Saudi Arabia?	1
Political thinking performed: popular cultures as arenas of consent and resistance	1
‘Revenge of the jobniks’? Soldier representation and resistance in contemporary Israeli popular culture	1
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: social justice and the rise of dystopian art and literature post-Arab Uprisings	1
Engendering hunger strikes: Palestinian women in Israeli prisons	1

The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative	1
Space, place and consciousness; Explorations on Jewish identity in Amos Oz’s life narrative A Tale of Love and Darkness	1
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications	1
Re-conceptualizing civil society in rentier states	1
Demographic analysis on social perceptions of Hijab in contemporary Iran: dimensions and determinants	1
Inherent contradictions in the Saudi rentier state: distributive capacity, youth employment preferences, and attitudes to education	1
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	1
Political time and leadership in the Middle East: an analysis of 22 prominent leaders	1
The contemporary Arab contribution to world culture: an Arab-Western dialogue	1
Temporary and permanent body modifications in medieval Islam: the legal discussion	1
When colonialism and nationalism meet - but speak a different language: the case of Haifa during the British Mandate	1
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–2013	1
Alevism as Islam: rethinking Shahab Ahmed’s conceptualization of Islam through Alevi poetry	1