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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The modern arabic bible: translation, dissemination, and literary impact	7
Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry , by Levi Thompson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 23	2
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	1
The concept of stylistic prose ( inşā ): its modern reception and historical context	1
Fresh lyric pieties: figuring the Prophet Muḥammad in the Safavid-Mughal Persian Ghazal	1
Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan	1
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	1
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	1
Between aesthetic revolution, mysticism, and mystification: Arab Marxist critiques of Adonis’ poetics and cultural studies	1
Music on the borderland: remembering and chronicling the 1979 revolution’s shadow on Iranian music	0
Female voices and Egyptian independence, Marginalized women in Egyptian and British fiction	0
“Show me one man”: corporeality, heroism and the holy women “saints” of Medieval Islam	0
Dedication	0
Erendiz Atasü: subverting the boundaries between authorship and originality	0
In memory of Franklin Lewis, the Translator	0
The stakes of “Imitation”: debating modern poetics and national identity in late ottoman literature	0
“Commendable in an Ottoman of his background”: Christopher Ferrard and a reassessment of his contributions on Islamic literary sciences	0
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon	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
Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt	0
A Distinct Flânerie: Roleplaying and Affective Responses to the City in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Miskinler Tekkesi	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
“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury	0
Writing for the Mystical Marketplace? Translating Sufism for Anglophone audiences in Halide Edib’s The Clown and His Daughter (1935) and Elif Shafak’s	0
Changing the subject: aesthetic dimensions of ottoman literary modernity	0

Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction	0
Pleasure domes and treasure houses: gender, storytelling, and interpretation in Niẓāmī's Haft paykar	0
Modern poetry of Afghanistan in translation: in the Memory of Franklin Lewis	0
Translation and adaptation studies on common ground: the Murat Davman crime fiction series	0
Narratives of resistance and political activism in post-1980 Turkish literature: reimagining 1970s Turkey in Muzaffer Oruçoğlu’s Tohum and Latife Tekin’s	0
“My poetry is not a servant” the political poetry of Saudi Arabian dissident poet Abdallah al-Hamid	0
The evolution of the love story in classical Arabic literature: Al-Muraqqish al-Akbar and ʿUrwah ibn Ḥizām as models of pining lovers	0
The classical discovery of modern (book) history	0
Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human	0
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	0
Unfinished modernity at the edge: existential crisis and postmodern form in Ferit Edgü’s Hakkâri Novels	0
“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	0
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0
Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria	0
On the margins of Beirut’s cultural modernism: aesthetics and politics in the inter-artistic works of Laure Ghorayeb	0
The master’s slap: bodies, books, and variations on an image by Ṣā’ib Tabrīzī	0
Fortune ( Baht ) as melodramatic causality in Halit Ziya’s Smyrna novels	0
Waiting for the new modern classic	0
Multilingual wor(l)dings in contemporary Turkish-Cypriot poetry: Mehmet Yashin's works in the Anglosphere	0
Reborn in translation: Tezer Özlü’s “old but ageless” cold nights of childhood translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely	0
Responding to texts—a reader’s response criticism to Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran	0
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’sSeason of Migration to the North	0
Essays on modern Kurdish literature	0
In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres	0
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry	0
Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	0
Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres	0
From social and national struggle in Mandate Palestine to combatting fascism in Spain: Yassin’s ʿAlī, Qissat Rajul Mustaqīm (2017)	0
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	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
“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai	0
Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq	0
Beyond the static “they-self”: the aesthetics of authenticity in Forough Farrokhzad’s “it is only sound that remains”	0
Making room in the premodern Persian poetic canon for Mahsatī and Rābʿiah	0
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki	0
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	0
Politics of sexuality, poetics of originality: early retranslations of Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” into Turkish	0
Nation and self: towards Kurdish subjectivity in Mehmed Uzun’s novels	0
Ways of seeking: the Arabic novel and the poetics of investigation	0
A late style too late for the end of the world: things Nâzım Hikmet didn’t know he said	0
A commemoration of Franklin Lewis’s scholarship in Persian literature	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0
“Rubailer,” maqāṭīʿ, and a transhistorical approach to the work of Nâzım Hikmet	0
Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl	0
Reading Byron in Palestine: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, translation, and the liberal poetics of exile	0
“To dance like Solomon: imitation and martyrdom in a Qajar ghazal ”	0
Refugee narratives in contemporary Turkish literature: a human-centered exploration	0
Unmasking the Caspian tiger: visibility, disguise, and identity in Murathan Mungan’s poetry	0
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	0

Fady Joudah and the problem of naming	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
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
Fragile ecologies	0
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature ,	0
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh	0
The poetics of genocidespeak: recognition and refusal of speech acts in Fady Joudah’s […]	0
Forms of Hesitation: Tadhabdhub and Metrical Hybridity in Syrian tafʿīla poetry, 1962–1975	0