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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the land of Palestine: deserts, shores, seas	1
The modern arabic bible: translation, dissemination, and literary impact	1
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon	1
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	1
Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria	0
Al-Qaṣīdah al-baṣariyyah fī-l-shiʿir al-ʿarabī al-ḥadīth (The Visual Poem in Modern Arabic Poetry)	0
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature ,	0
Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	0
Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki	0
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	0
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	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
Arabic exile literature in Europe. Defamiliarising forced migration	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0
On the margins of Beirut’s cultural modernism: aesthetics and politics in the inter-artistic works of Laure Ghorayeb	0
The stakes of “Imitation”: debating modern poetics and national identity in late ottoman literature	0
“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury	0
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	0
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0
Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq	0
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh	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
Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan	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

“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	0
Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human	0
Translation and adaptation studies on common ground: the Murat Davman crime fiction series	0
Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres	0
Is the Arabnahḍahreally Arabic? Literary translingualisms in thenahḍah'scontact zones	0
Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction	0
“Pantomime”: A short story by Sami Paşazade Sezai	0
Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt	0
Fragile ecologies	0
The Tent Generation: Palestinian Poems	0
Poetry, satire, and self in the post-constitutional Iranian-Jewish periodical Ha-Hayyim	0
Hafiz and his contemporaries: poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth-century Iran	0
Forms of Hesitation: Tadhabdhub and Metrical Hybridity in Syrian tafʿīla poetry, 1962–1975	0
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry	0
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism	0
A Distinct Flânerie: Roleplaying and Affective Responses to the City in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Miskinler Tekkesi	0
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’sSeason of Migration to the North	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
Syrian poetry in exile: the case of Wafai Laila	0
Beholding beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the aesthetics of desire in medieval Persian poetry	0
In memoriam: Franklin Lewis (1961-2022)	0
Kamāl al-Dīn Banāʾī’sBahrām va Bihrūz: A Persian romancequamirror for princes in light of Aq Qoyunlu history	0
From social and national struggle in Mandate Palestine to combatting fascism in Spain: Yassin’s ʿAlī, Qissat Rajul Mustaqīm (2017)	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
The master’s slap: bodies, books, and variations on an image by Ṣā’ib Tabrīzī	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
Experimentation and the absurd in two plays by Syrian playwright Walīd Ikhlāṣī	0
The translator of desires	0
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
Muḥammad al-Māghūṭ’s rhetoric of sincerity: a major voice in modern Arabic poetry	0
Making room in the premodern Persian poetic canon for Mahsatī and Rābʿiah	0
“To dance like Solomon: imitation and martyrdom in a Qajarghazal”	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
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
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	0
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
Dedication	0
“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai	0
In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres	0