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
Understanding Rojava	3
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938	3
Cover Art Concept	3
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
Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria	2
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
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1
Al-ʿUcha	1
Women Writing in Cairo	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0

For My Mother, Nawal	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
Ruling by Wife	0
Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Pre-Conflict Aleppo	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
Writing Ethnography as Graphic Fiction	0
A First Glance at the Woman in the Mirror	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Palestine Is Our Root	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
Aaru	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
The Genocide in Gaza and the Selective Plot of Women’s Rights Solidarity	0
Reflections of American Muslim Women with Disability and as Caretakers	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Violent/Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World	0
Stipulations in Iranian Women’s Marriage Contracts	0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon	0
Naturalizing Motherhood	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Love on Hold	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
The Colonization of the Palestinian Female Body Through Zionist Mistreatment and the Land in the Work of Susan Abulhawa and Adania Shibli	0
Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence	0
The Gaza School Birth	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective	0
Cover Art Concept	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
Whose Gender Counts?	0
Productive Disengagement	0
Race against Time	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
“Nishtiman” Is Her Name	0
Nowhere in Her Homeland	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0

Of Ants and Men	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
Reframing War	0
Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Mellon Conference—The Arab Oral History Archive	0
Women in the Young Turk Revolution of 1908	0
Lost in Translation	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Remembering Salma	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
No-Fly Zone	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Kurdish Women’s Stories	0
Arab Comics Collectives as Catalysts of Change	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	0
Cover Art Concept	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
Intellectual and Creative Paradigms	0
Introduction to Forum	0
The Doubling Self	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Solidarity as Life-Giving Affect	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
Self-Care Practices of the Istanbul YWCA in the Late Ottoman State and Early Republican Turkey	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Introduction	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
Drawing Dissent from the Assad Regime to Beirut Uprisings	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0
Editors’ Note	0
Gulf Women’s Lives: Voice, Space, Place	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
Djinn as the “Embodiment of Knowledge”	0
Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	0
The Challenges of Teaching Gender Studies in Gaza	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Introduction	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
Cover Art Concept	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	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
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
“Saving” Anatolian Girls	0
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria	0
Worlding a Peripheral Museum, Evental Time in the Middle East, and the Fabulation of the People-to-Come	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame	0
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Cover Art Concept	0