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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Positive and Negative Diaspora Governance in Context: From Public Diplomacy to Transnational Authoritarianism	34
Conservative Narrative: Contemporary Neo-Ottomanist Approaches in Turkish Politics	17
Governing Anxiety, Trauma and Crisis: The Political Discourse on Ontological (In)Security after the July 15 Coup Attempt in Turkey	17
Populism and the Politics of Belonging in Erdoğan’s Turkey	13
The Evolving Kurdish Question in Turkey	10
Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy Toward Syria: The Return of Securitization	10
Faulty Assumptions about Democratization in Turkey	6
The ‘War on Terror’ as Primitive Accumulation in Tunisia: US-Led Imperialism and the Post-2010-2011 Revolt/Security Conjuncture	6
The Role of Bedouin Youth and Women in Resistance to the Israeli Prawer Plans in the Naqab	6
The Political Economy of Nationality-Based Labor Inclusion Strategies: A Case Study of the Jordan Compact	5
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	5
Mahdi Amel: On Colonialism, Sectarianism and Hegemony	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism	3
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	3
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Islamism, Identity and Memory: Turkey Under Erdoğan	3
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	3
Revolutionary Weakness in Gramscian Perspective: the Arab Middle East and North Africa since 2011	3
Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?	2
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	2
The Turkish-Armenian Historical Controversy: How to Name the Events of 1915?	2
Underground Music in Tunisia: The Case of Awled AL Manajim Under Ben Ali	2
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization	2
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia	2
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	2

On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	2
Molecular Transformations: Reading the Arab Uprisings with and beyond Gramsci	2
Suppression of the Female Name in Contemporary Palestine	2
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices	2
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	2
The Politics of Faith among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Increasing Human Capital and Public Engagement	2
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	2
Impact of 1962-68 North Yemen War on Cold War Balance of Power	2
Hegemony, Domination, Corruption and Fraud in the Arab Region	2
Gezi Insurgency as ‘Counter-Conduct’	2
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	1
Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds	1
Taifa: A Journey of Integration beyond the Subaltern Narrative	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Gramsci in the Arab World	1
China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman	1
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	1
Bibliography for a Travelling Gramsci	1
Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia	1
Trading Wheat for Books in the Cold War: Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) and Its Connection to Middle East Studies	1
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	1
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	1
Modified J-Curve Theory, Iran’s Socio-Economic Bottlenecks and the 1979 Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy	1
The Cause of the Lebanese Disappeared in Syria: Human Rights, Social Movements and Politics in Lebanon	1
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	1
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	1
Reception of Rorty’s Thought in Iran: How His Anti-Foundationalism Has Contributed to Iran’s Tradition-Modernity Debate	1
Afghanistan’s Political Settlement Puzzle: The Impact of the Breakdown of Afghan Political Parties to an Elite Polity System (2001–2021)	1
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	1
The Other Khatibi: Envisaging Arab Intellectuals after the End of Grand Narratives	1
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	1
Palestinian NGOs’ Changed Work Dynamics: Before, During, and beyond the Oslo Process	1
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)	1
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	1
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	1
M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review: Nostalgia for Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism	1
Land Reform and Kurdish Nationalism in Postcolonial Iraq	1
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism	1
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	0
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	0
The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents	0
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	0
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	0
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution	0
Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War	0
Editor’s Note	0
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	0
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	0
Analysis of Social Capital Trends after Iran’s Islamic Revolution	0
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	0
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment	0

Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	0
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	0
Editor’s Note	0
Singing a New Future: Egypt’s Choir Project	0
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	0
Beginnings, Continuities and Revivals: An Inventory of the New Arab Left and an Ongoing Arab Left Tradition	0
UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC States: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-1993	0
Anthropology of Water in Varzaneh, Iran	0
Editor’s Note	0
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia	0
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	0
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	0
The Principled Fine Line in Egypt’s Sociology: Farewell Mona Abaza¹	0
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	0
Historical Overview of Development’s Impact on Rural and Urban Governance in Iran	0
Review Essay: From the River to the Sea, Edited by Mandy Turner	0
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	0
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	0
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	0
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	0
IMF’s Social Protection between Rhetoric and Action: The Case of Egypt	0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	0
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony	0
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	0
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	0
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	0
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	0
The Forms of a Travelling Theory: A New Approach to Gramsci’s Texts	0
Correction	0
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	0
Editorial Note	0
One Thousand and One Cities: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Challenges over a Half-Century of Urbanization in Iran	0
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	0
Editor’s Note	0
Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities	0
The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development and the Sociopolitical Transformations in Syria and Libya	0
Editor’s Note	0
Sociology of Rival Music Genres and Music Consumption in Post-1979 Revolution Iranian Society	0
Editor’s Note	0
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	0
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity	0
Weaponizing Democratization: Street Battles and Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt	0
Normalization and the Erasure of Palestine: Ideology and Myth in Arab Drama Series	0
Editor’s Note	0
Comparing the Role of the Military in Iran’s and Egypt’s Revolutions	0
The Mythological Machine in the Great Civil War (2001–2021): Oikos and Polis in Nation-Making	0
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	0
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	0
Editor’s Note	0
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates	0
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	0
Editor’s Note	0
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	0
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	0
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain	0
Correction	0