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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture	8
‘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	6
Islamism and the rise of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia: claiming political Islam through other means?	6
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts	6
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination	4
The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution	4
Ideology matters: cultural power in the case of Daesh	4
Queer counterpublics and LGBTQ pop-activism in Jordan	4
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	3
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?	3
Israeli Military Education: Historical Overview of a Unique Phenomenon (1941-2004)	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
Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran	2
The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative	2
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran	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
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–2013	2
Constructing new Turkey’s desired worker: the denial of social class in the AKP era	2
Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?	2
The armed struggle of the 1980s in Iranian Kurdistan: a space for survival	2

Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran	2
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco	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
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	2
Responding to Climate Change in Jordan: understanding institutional developments, political restrictions and economic opportunities	2
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media	2
Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: forms of capital approach	2
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–2017	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
‘Just another story that was prepared in advance’ - political distrust, Islamism, and conspiratorial thinking in Arab public opinion on the Islamic State	2
Active on the street but apathetic at the ballot box? Explaining youth voter behaviour in Tunisia’s new democracy	2
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia	2
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	2
From brotherhood of the revolution to the struggle for power: analysis of the Libyan Civil War in the context of the security dilemma	1
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections	1
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance	1
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi	1
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring	1
The war of the 60 stamps: the battle for public opinion – how the Nakba influenced Jordanian postage stamps	1
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars	1
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	1
Musical spirits and poetic tongues: oral traditions in the cultural politics of Kurdish intellectuals (1920s-1940s)	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
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: social justice and the rise of dystopian art and literature post-Arab Uprisings	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	1
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels	1
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	1
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period	1
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran	1
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	1
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses	1
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	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
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli	1
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices	1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations	1
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation ( taṭbīr )	1
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership	1
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	1
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change	1
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story	1
Kemerê Duzgi: The Protector of Dersim (pilgrimage, social transformation, and revitalization of the Raa Haqi religion)	1
The cinema of the young Muslim Brothers: claiming a space in Egyptian pop culture	1
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications	1
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	1
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution	1

Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects	1
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	1
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Internet-mediated Islamist semiotics: policing memes and the R4BIA pizza effect	1
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives	1
From ‘ yol ’ to diasporic Alevism: migration and religious change among Alevis in Britain	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
Orchestrating Palestinian youth political socialization during the British Mandate (1917-1948): policies and community responses	1
Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa	1