OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Middle East Critique 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	15
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	7
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	6
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis	4
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia	4
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices	4
The Principled Fine Line in Egypt’s Sociology: Farewell Mona Abaza¹	4
Editor’s Note	4
Editor’s Note	4
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	3
Editor’s Note	3
Gezi Insurgency as ‘Counter-Conduct’	3
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	3
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	3
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	3
Diasporic Democratic Futures	3
The Other Khatibi: Envisaging Arab Intellectuals after the End of Grand Narratives	3
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	3
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia	3
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism	3
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	2
One Thousand and One Cities: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Challenges over a Half-Century of Urbanization in Iran	2
The Political Economy of Nationality-Based Labor Inclusion Strategies: A Case Study of the Jordan Compact	2
Anthropology of Water in Varzaneh, Iran	2
American Colony in Jerusalem: Rebuilding the Eight Palestinian Villages Buried by USA Independence Park	2

Trading Wheat for Books in the Cold War: Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) and Its Connection to Middle East Studies	2
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	2
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	2
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	2
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	2
Correction	2
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	2
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
The Academic Question of Palestine	1
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	1
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	1
Reception of Rorty’s Thought in Iran: How His Anti-Foundationalism Has Contributed to Iran’s Tradition-Modernity Debate	1
The Mythological Machine in the Great Civil War (2001–2021):OikosandPolisin Nation-Making	1
Weaponizing Democratization: Street Battles and Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt	1
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	1
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates	1
Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia	1
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	1
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization	1
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	1
Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia	1
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	1
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
Land Reform and Kurdish Nationalism in Postcolonial Iraq	1
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment	1
M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review:Nostalgia for Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism	1
The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development and the Sociopolitical Transformations in Syria and Libya	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	1
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	1
Afghanistan’s Political Settlement Puzzle: The Impact of the Breakdown of Afghan Political Parties to an Elite Polity System (2001–2021)	1
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	1
Five-Star Humanitarianism? Navigating Gulf Aid in the Aftermath of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan	0
Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism: On Motivations and Violence	0
Palestine Studies, Knowledge Production, and the Struggle for Decolonisation	0
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	0
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	0
IMF’s Social Protection between Rhetoric and Action: The Case of Egypt	0
Editor’s Note	0
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity	0
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution	0
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	0
The ‘War on Terror’ as Primitive Accumulation in Tunisia: US-Led Imperialism and the Post-2010-2011 Revolt/Security Conjuncture	0
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	0
Correction	0
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	0
Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities	0
Historical Overview of Development’s Impact on Rural and Urban Governance in Iran	0

Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	0
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	0
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	0
Analysis of Social Capital Trends after Iran’s Islamic Revolution	0
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	0
Palestinian Music and the Potential for the Nation Branding of Palestine	0
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	0
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	0
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	0
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	0
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	0
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	0
Impact of 1962-68 North Yemen War on Cold War Balance of Power	0
Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds	0
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	0
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	0
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project	0
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)	0
Comparing the Role of the Military in Iran’s and Egypt’s Revolutions	0
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	0
Taifa: A Journey of Integration beyond the Subaltern Narrative	0
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	0
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	0
Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?	0
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony	0
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	0
A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script	0
Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War	0
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	0
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	0
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	0
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception	0
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	0
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	0
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	0
10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism	0
UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC States: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-1993	0
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	0
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	0
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	0
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	0
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	0
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain	0
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	0
Fuel Smuggling in the West Bank (2018–2021): Palestinian Economic Agency under the Israeli System of Spatial Control	0
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	0
Editor’s Note	0
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	0
Editor’s Note	0
The Politics of Faith among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Increasing Human Capital and Public Engagement	0
Modified J-Curve Theory, Iran’s Socio-Economic Bottlenecks and the 1979 Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy	0
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	0
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	0
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	0
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	0
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialismBook Review of Ruy Mauro Marini, The dialectics of dependency . New Yo	0
Sociology of Rival Music Genres and Music Consumption in Post-1979 Revolution Iranian Society	0
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis	0
Editor’s Note	0
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	0
The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents	0
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	0
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	0
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0
Normalization and the Erasure of Palestine: Ideology and Myth in Arab Drama Series	0
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	0
Emergence, Development, and Impact of Population Displacement in Damascus During Syria’s Civil War	0
Correction	0
Crises of Authority in the Arab World: Readings from Contemporary Tunisia	0
The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont: Reimagining the Middle East in World History	0
Editorial Note	0
Claiming Democracy and Environmental Justice at the Margins: Land Rights and Urban Informality as Sites of Mobilization in Morocco	0
China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman	0