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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing towards Constitutional Autocracy	18
Astronomy for Girls	7
Arab Images	6
Gendered Reincarnations	4
Stitching Armenian Imagination	4
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
Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria	2
Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad	2
Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema	2
The Pleasures of Domesticity	2
What’s Left of Us?	2
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings	2
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1
Al-ʿUcha	1
From Islamists to Religious Patriots	1
Cover Art Concept	1
The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen	1
Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey	1
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal	1
The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East	1
Deterritorialized in the Homeland	1
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
No-Fly Zone	0

Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
The Challenges of Teaching Gender Studies in Gaza	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Kurdish Women’s Stories	0
Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey	0
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	0
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide	0
Introduction	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
Solidarity as Life-Giving Affect	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
Cover Art Concept	0
The Doubling Self	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	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
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
Drawing Dissent from the Assad Regime to Beirut Uprisings	0
Worlding a Peripheral Museum, Evental Time in the Middle East, and the Fabulation of the People-to-Come	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Introduction	0
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Editors’ Note	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
Djinn as the “Embodiment of Knowledge”	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
Ruling by Wife	0
Palestine Is Our Root	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
A First Glance at the Woman in the Mirror	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
Reflections of American Muslim Women with Disability and as Caretakers	0

The Genocide in Gaza and the Selective Plot of Women’s Rights Solidarity	0
“Saving” Anatolian Girls	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
Cover Art Concept	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Naturalizing Motherhood	0
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Writing Ethnography as Graphic Fiction	0
The Gaza School Birth	0
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective	0
Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Pre-Conflict Aleppo	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Race against Time	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
Whose Gender Counts?	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights	0
Aaru	0
“Nishtiman” Is Her Name	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
Mellon Conference—The Arab Oral History Archive	0
Violent/Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Love on Hold	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
The Colonization of the Palestinian Female Body Through Zionist Mistreatment and the Land in the Work of Susan Abulhawa and Adania Shibli	0
Cover Art Concept	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Arab Comics Collectives as Catalysts of Change	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
Intellectual and Creative Paradigms	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
Introduction to Forum	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
Productive Disengagement	0
Self-Care Practices of the Istanbul YWCA in the Late Ottoman State and Early Republican Turkey	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
Nowhere in Her Homeland	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Of Ants and Men	0
Reframing War	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Women in the Young Turk Revolution of 1908	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Gulf Women’s Lives: Voice, Space, Place	0
Lost in Translation	0
Remembering Salma	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0