OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing towards Constitutional Autocracy	16
Astronomy for Girls	7
Gendered Reincarnations	6
Stitching Armenian Imagination	4
Arab Images	4
Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad	3
Cover Art Concept	3
Understanding Rojava	3
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938	3
Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema	2
Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria	2
What’s Left of Us?	2
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings	2
The Pleasures of Domesticity	2
The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen	1
Deterritorialized in the Homeland	1
The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri’sElle Va Nue la Liberté(Freedom Walks Naked)	1
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon	1
Cover Art Concept	1
Al-ʿUcha	1
From Islamists to Religious Patriots	1
Kurdish Women’s Stories	1
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	1
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal	1
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1

The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East	1
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	1
Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey	1
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame	0
A First Glance at the Woman in the Mirror	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Introduction	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
Love on Hold	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
“Saving” Anatolian Girls	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence	0
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders	0
Turkish Kaleidoscope	0
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
Whose Gender Counts?	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
Ruling by Wife	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
Aaru	0
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul	0
Lost in Translation	0
Worlding a Peripheral Museum, Evental Time in the Middle East, and the Fabulation of the People-to-Come	0
Cover Art Concept	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
No-Fly Zone	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Race against Time	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0

Intellectual and Creative Paradigms	0
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation	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
The Genocide in Gaza and the Selective Plot of Women’s Rights Solidarity	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
Solidarity as Life-Giving Affect	0
Naturalizing Motherhood	0
The Doubling Self	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Violent/Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Introduction to Forum	0
A Gendered Return	0
Productive Disengagement	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0
Djinn as the “Embodiment of Knowledge”	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
Remembering Salma	0
On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
Drawing Dissent from the Assad Regime to Beirut Uprisings	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
Arab Comics Collectives as Catalysts of Change	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
Stipulations in Iranian Women’s Marriage Contracts	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
Introduction	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
The Gaza School Birth	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Of Ants and Men	0
“Nishtiman” Is Her Name	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
Reframing War	0
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0