OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Middle East Womens Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing towards Constitutional Autocracy	8
A Delicate Balancing Act	3
Astronomy for Girls	3
Understanding Rojava	2
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938	2
Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad	2
Arab Images	2
Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema	2
Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations	1
Cover Art Concept	1
Al-ʿUcha	1
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War	1
Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies	1
The Pleasures of Domesticity	1
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal	1
The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East	1
A Tribute	1
The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri’sElle Va Nue la Liberté(Freedom Walks Naked)	1
Women Doctors and the Medical Profession in Iraq during the First Half of the Twentieth Century	1
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings	1
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal IslamLGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East	1
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1
From Islamists to Religious Patriots	1
The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen	1
Saving the Modern Woman	0

Introduction	0
Afifa’s Migration	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
Nawal and Sherif Tribute	0
Introduction	0
No-Fly Zone	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
From The Hidden Face of Eve to AWSA Activism to Tahrir	0
An Ode to Nawal El Saadawi	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
Ruling by Wife	0
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey	0
Reframing War	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
A Word from the President	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
Cover Art Concept	0
A Gendered Return	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
Beauty Standards in Egypt	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Cover Art Concept	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
Productive Disengagement	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Remembering Salma	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey	0
Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders	0

Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa	0
“Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?”	0
Of Ants and Men	0
Remembering Nawal El Saadawi	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0
Cover Art Concept	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
In Memory of a Woman Doctor	0
Aaru	0
What I Will Never Forget	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
Cover Art Concept	0
The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power	0
From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
Orientalism without Power?	0
Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation	0
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
Female Self-Attack and Suicide in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
La Vie en Rouge	0
The Daughter of Isis at Duke University	0
Nursing (Inter)nationalism in Iran, 1916–1947	0
Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Race against Time	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
A Feminist Ethos of Point Zero	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality	0
Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
March 28, 2021	0
Ladies Aid as Labor History	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
Kurdish Women’s Stories	0
The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	0
Facing the Past	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Love on Hold	0
On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt	0
The Doubling Self	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Introduction	0