OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Middle Eastern Literatures is 0. 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
Narratives of Older Age: A Review of Samira Aghacy’s Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel (2020)	1
“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai	1
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	1
Eyes on the prize: the global readability of an IPAF-winning modern Arabic novel	1
“Milli etmek” [Making national]: masculinity, queerness and disability in Murat Uyurkulak’s Merhume	1
Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures	1
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq	0
English poetry and modern Arabic verse: translation and modernity	0
Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	0
Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl	0
The classical discovery of modern (book) history	0
A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic	0
Al-Qaṣīdah al-baṣariyyah fī-l-shiʿir al-ʿarabī al-ḥadīth (The Visual Poem in Modern Arabic Poetry)	0
“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	0
In memoriam: Franklin Lewis (1961-2022)	0
A Poem by an-Nābighah adh-Dhubyānī Translated by Robin Moger	0
From social and national struggle in Mandate Palestine to combatting fascism in Spain: Yassin’s ʿAlī, Qissat Rajul Mustaqīm (2017)	0
Dedication	0
Experimentation and the absurd in two plays by Syrian playwright Walīd Ikhlāṣī	0
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism	0
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	0
The translator of desires	0
Poetry, satire, and self in the post-constitutional Iranian-Jewish periodical Ha-Hayyim	0
Muḥammad al-Māghūṭ’s rhetoric of sincerity: a major voice in modern Arabic poetry	0

Hafiz and his contemporaries: poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth-century Iran	0
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	0
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon	0
Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-modernity and urban visual culture in the mid-twentieth century Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-modernity and urban visual culture in the mid-twentieth century	0
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0
Beyond the land of Palestine: deserts, shores, seas	0
In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres	0
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’sSeason of Migration to the North	0
Sadeq Hedayat’s vegetarianism: a few notes on the representation of vegetarianism, animals and animal rights in Sadeq Hedayat’s Favāʾid-i giyāhkhārī (The benefits of veg	0
Syrian poetry in exile: the case of Wafai Laila	0
Reading Iraqi Women’s Novels in English Translation / Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia	0
An iridescent device: premodern Ottoman poetry	0
Translation and adaptation studies on common ground: the Murat Davman crime fiction series	0
The concept of a house/home in the poetry of the Nineties Poets – Ḥattā atakhallā ʿan fikrat al-buyūt by Īmān Mirsāl as a model	0
Is the Arabnahḍahreally Arabic? Literary translingualisms in thenahḍah'scontact zones	0
Threading the racial capitalocene: on the poetics of affective porosity in Ibrahim al-Koni'sBleeding of the Stone(Nazīf al-ḥajar) and Yoel Hoffmann'sBook of Joseph(Sefer Yosef<	0
In memory of Franklin Lewis, the Translator	0
Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt	0
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
Arabic exile literature in Europe. Defamiliarising forced migration	0
Making room in the premodern Persian poetic canon for Mahsatī and Rābʿiah	0
In memoriam	0
“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury	0
A Distinct Flânerie: Roleplaying and Affective Responses to the City in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Miskinler Tekkesi	0
“To dance like Solomon: imitation and martyrdom in a Qajar ghazal ”	0
Orphanhood and allegoresis in Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s Granada Trilogy	0
Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human	0
Co-editors’ introduction	0
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	0
A Dove in Free Flight A Dove in Free Flight , edited by Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani, Translated by the New York Translation Collective, New York, Upset Press, 2	0
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh	0
Beholding beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the aesthetics of desire in medieval Persian poetry	0
Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria	0
Kamāl al-Dīn Banāʾī’sBahrām va Bihrūz: A Persian romancequamirror for princes in light of Aq Qoyunlu history	0
Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan	0
Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki	0
Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres	0
“Pantomime”: A short story by Sami Paşazade Sezai	0
Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction	0
Fragile ecologies	0
Hydrofictions: water, power and politics in Israeli and Palestinian literature	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0
The Tent Generation: Palestinian Poems	0
On the margins of Beirut’s cultural modernism: aesthetics and politics in the inter-artistic works of Laure Ghorayeb	0
Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry , by Levi Thompson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 23	0
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry	0
The modern arabic bible: translation, dissemination, and literary impact	0