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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The modern arabic bible: translation, dissemination, and literary impact	7
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
Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry , by Levi Thompson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 23	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
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
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature ,	0
Forms of Hesitation: Tadhabdhub and Metrical Hybridity in Syrian tafʿīla poetry, 1962–1975	0
Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq	0
Waiting for the new modern classic	0
Female voices and Egyptian independence, Marginalized women in Egyptian and British fiction	0
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	0
“Commendable in an Ottoman of his background”: Christopher Ferrard and a reassessment of his contributions on Islamic literary sciences	0
Unfinished modernity at the edge: existential crisis and postmodern form in Ferit Edgü’s Hakkâri Novels	0
“My poetry is not a servant” the political poetry of Saudi Arabian dissident poet Abdallah al-Hamid	0
Erendiz Atasü: subverting the boundaries between authorship and originality	0
The master’s slap: bodies, books, and variations on an image by Ṣā’ib Tabrīzī	0
“Show me one man”: corporeality, heroism and the holy women “saints” of Medieval Islam	0
Music on the borderland: remembering and chronicling the 1979 revolution’s shadow on Iranian music	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
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’sSeason of Migration to the North	0
Essays on modern Kurdish literature	0

“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury	0
Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria	0
Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction	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
“To dance like Solomon: imitation and martyrdom in a Qajar ghazal ”	0
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	0
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon	0
The stakes of “Imitation”: debating modern poetics and national identity in late ottoman literature	0
Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human	0
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0
On the margins of Beirut’s cultural modernism: aesthetics and politics in the inter-artistic works of Laure Ghorayeb	0
Unmasking the Caspian tiger: visibility, disguise, and identity in Murathan Mungan’s poetry	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
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	0
“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai	0
A commemoration of Franklin Lewis’s scholarship in Persian literature	0
Fragile ecologies	0
Refugee narratives in contemporary Turkish literature: a human-centered exploration	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
Ways of seeking: the Arabic novel and the poetics of investigation	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
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry	0
Making room in the premodern Persian poetic canon for Mahsatī and Rābʿiah	0
Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres	0
Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	0
A Distinct Flânerie: Roleplaying and Affective Responses to the City in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Miskinler Tekkesi	0
Translation and adaptation studies on common ground: the Murat Davman crime fiction series	0
Beyond the static “they-self”: the aesthetics of authenticity in Forough Farrokhzad’s “it is only sound that remains”	0
“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	0
Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki	0
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
Nation and self: towards Kurdish subjectivity in Mehmed Uzun’s novels	0
A late style too late for the end of the world: things Nâzım Hikmet didn’t know he said	0
The classical discovery of modern (book) history	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
The evolution of the love story in classical Arabic literature: Al-Muraqqish al-Akbar and ʿUrwah ibn Ḥizām as models of pining lovers	0
In memory of Franklin Lewis, the Translator	0
Dedication	0
Multilingual wor(l)dings in contemporary Turkish-Cypriot poetry: Mehmet Yashin's works in the Anglosphere	0
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh	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
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
Modern poetry of Afghanistan in translation: in the Memory of Franklin Lewis	0
“Rubailer,” maqāṭīʿ, and a transhistorical approach to the work of Nâzım Hikmet	0
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	0
In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres	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

From social and national struggle in Mandate Palestine to combatting fascism in Spain: Yassin’s ʿAlī, Qissat Rajul Mustaqīm (2017)	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0