OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Translation and the Modern Arab Renaissance by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra	2
Gender of Trauma inİstanbul İstanbul	2
Narratives of Older Age: A Review of Samira Aghacy’s Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel (2020)	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
Utopian/Dystopian Lebanon: constructing place in Jabbūr al-Duwayhī’sSharīd al-manāzil	1
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	0
A Poem by an-Nābighah adh-Dhubyānī Translated by Robin Moger	0
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	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
The translator of desires	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0
The Hell of Metamorphosis: selected from Manṣūr Būshnāf’s al-Kalb al-dhahabī (2020; The Golden Dog) and translated by Charis Olszok	0
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	0
Aḥmad al-Madīnī: a poetics of dissent	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
Eight poems by Golan Haji	0
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0
Ethnicity in modern rewritings of Bashshār ibn Burd: “free thinker,” “libertine” or “love poet”?	0
Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan	0
Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	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
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North	0
Al-Qaṣīdah al-baṣariyyah fī-l-shiʿir al-ʿarabī al-ḥadīth (The Visual Poem in Modern Arabic Poetry)	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
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism	0
Sexuality, nationalism and the other: the Arabic literary canon between Orientalism and the Nahḍa discourse at the fin de siècle	0
Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt	0
Experimentation and the absurd in two plays by Syrian playwright Walīd Ikhlāṣī	0
Arabic exile literature in Europe. Defamiliarising forced migration	0
Voices from Kazakhstan	0
Muḥammad al-Māghūṭ’s rhetoric of sincerity: a major voice in modern Arabic poetry	0
Transnational Turkic identity inHilal Görününceby Sevinç Çokum	0
Hafiz and his contemporaries: poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth-century Iran	0
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon , by Yasmine Khayyat, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse UP, 2023, $34.95 (paperbac	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
Co-editors’ introduction	0
Beyond the land of Palestine: deserts, shores, seas	0
Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl	0
Colonialism, nationalism and modernity in al-Manfalūṭī’s novelization of a Coppée’s play: a comparative reading ofFī sabīl al-tājandPour La Couronne	0
Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century	0
A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic	0
The Libyan novel: humans, animals and the poetics of vulnerability	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
In memoriam: Franklin Lewis (1961-2022)	0
Threading the racial capitalocene: on the poetics of affective porosity in Ibrahim al-Koni's Bleeding of the Stone (Nazīf al-ḥajar) and Yoel Hoffmann's Book of Joseph (Sefer Yo	0
Is the Arab nahḍah really Arabic? Literary translingualisms in the nahḍah's contact zones	0
Hydrofictions: water, power and politics in Israeli and Palestinian literature	0
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
The Tent Generation: Palestinian Poems	0
Poetry, satire, and self in the post-constitutional Iranian-Jewish periodical Ha-Hayyim	0
In memoriam	0
Adversary as protagonist: Palestinian Fiction by Mahmoud Shukair, Hanna Ibrahim and Ibtisam Azem mediated through the perspective of Jewish Israeli characters	0
Spinning toxic yarns of matter: material environments and marginalized toxic bodies in Latife Tekin'sBerji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hillsand John Burnside'sGlister	0
Orphanhood and allegoresis in Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s Granada Trilogy	0
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
Representation of the female body in Adalet Ağaoğlu's Ölmeye Yatmak and Leylâ Erbil's Tuhaf Bir Kadın	0
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	0
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	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
Beholding beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the aesthetics of desire in medieval Persian poetry	0
A new study model for Arabic Sufi prose	0