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

Article	Citations
Beyond the land of Palestine: deserts, shores, seas	1
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon	1
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	1
A Distinct Flânerie: Roleplaying and Affective Responses to the City in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Miskinler Tekkesi	1
Orphanhood and allegoresis in Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s Granada Trilogy	1
The modern arabic bible: translation, dissemination, and literary impact	1
English poetry and modern Arabic verse: translation and modernity	1
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0
An iridescent device: premodern Ottoman poetry	0
Kamāl al-Dīn Banāʾī’sBahrām va Bihrūz: A Persian romancequamirror for princes in light of Aq Qoyunlu history	0
A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic	0
Dedication	0
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh	0
Co-editors’ introduction	0
In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres	0
Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki	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
Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry , by Levi Thompson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 23	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
Making room in the premodern Persian poetic canon for Mahsatī and Rābʿiah	0
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0
Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction	0
Experimentation and the absurd in two plays by Syrian playwright Walīd Ikhlāṣī	0
Muḥammad al-Māghūṭ’s rhetoric of sincerity: a major voice in modern Arabic poetry	0

Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	0
Eyes on the prize: the global readability of an IPAF-winning modern Arabic novel	0
The translator of desires	0
Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq	0
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism	0
“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	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
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
“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai	0
Al-Qaṣīdah al-baṣariyyah fī-l-shiʿir al-ʿarabī al-ḥadīth (The Visual Poem in Modern Arabic Poetry)	0
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’sSeason of Migration to the North	0
Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan	0
The classical discovery of modern (book) history	0
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	0
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
Forms of Hesitation: Tadhabdhub and Metrical Hybridity in Syrian tafʿīla poetry, 1962–1975	0
Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres	0
Poetry, satire, and self in the post-constitutional Iranian-Jewish periodical Ha-Hayyim	0
“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury	0
Fragile ecologies	0
On the margins of Beirut’s cultural modernism: aesthetics and politics in the inter-artistic works of Laure Ghorayeb	0
“Pantomime”: A short story by Sami Paşazade Sezai	0
Hafiz and his contemporaries: poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth-century Iran	0
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
Hydrofictions: water, power and politics in Israeli and Palestinian literature	0
Translation and adaptation studies on common ground: the Murat Davman crime fiction series	0
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
The Tent Generation: Palestinian Poems	0
Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria	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
Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human	0
Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl	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
The master’s slap: bodies, books, and variations on an image by Ṣā’ib Tabrīzī	0
“Milli etmek” [Making national]: masculinity, queerness and disability in Murat Uyurkulak’s Merhume	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
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	0
Beholding beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the aesthetics of desire in medieval Persian poetry	0
The stakes of “Imitation”: debating modern poetics and national identity in late ottoman literature	0
Narratives of Older Age: A Review of Samira Aghacy’s Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel (2020)	0
Is the Arabnahḍahreally Arabic? Literary translingualisms in thenahḍah'scontact zones	0
“To dance like Solomon: imitation and martyrdom in a Qajarghazal”	0
In memory of Franklin Lewis, the Translator	0
In memoriam	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
Arabic exile literature in Europe. Defamiliarising forced migration	0
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	0
Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt	0

In memoriam: Franklin Lewis (1961-2022)