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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	10
The Political Economy of Nationality-Based Labor Inclusion Strategies: A Case Study of the Jordan Compact	7
The ‘War on Terror’ as Primitive Accumulation in Tunisia: US-Led Imperialism and the Post-2010-2011 Revolt/Security Conjuncture	6
Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?	4
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization	4
Mahdi Amel: On Colonialism, Sectarianism and Hegemony	4
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	4
10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism	4
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	4
Revolutionary Weakness in Gramscian Perspective: the Arab Middle East and North Africa since 2011	4
Hegemony, Domination, Corruption and Fraud in the Arab Region	3
Gezi Insurgency as ‘Counter-Conduct’	3
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	3
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	3
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	3
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia	3
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	3
Impact of 1962-68 North Yemen War on Cold War Balance of Power	3
Land Reform and Kurdish Nationalism in Postcolonial Iraq	3
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	3
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)	3
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	2
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony	2
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	2
Trading Wheat for Books in the Cold War: Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) and Its Connection to Middle East Studies	2

From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia	2
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception	2
Molecular Transformations: Reading the Arab Uprisings with and beyond Gramsci	2
Palestine Studies, Knowledge Production, and the Struggle for Decolonisation	2
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism	2
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	2
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	2
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	2
The Politics of Faith among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Increasing Human Capital and Public Engagement	2
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	2
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices	2
Beginnings, Continuities and Revivals: An Inventory of the New Arab Left and an Ongoing Arab Left Tradition	1
Afghanistan’s Political Settlement Puzzle: The Impact of the Breakdown of Afghan Political Parties to an Elite Polity System (2001–2021)	1
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	1
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	1
Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds	1
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	1
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	1
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	1
China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman	1
M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review:Nostalgia for Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism	1
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	1
Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia	1
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	1
One Thousand and One Cities: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Challenges over a Half-Century of Urbanization in Iran	1
The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents	1
Taifa: A Journey of Integration beyond the Subaltern Narrative	1
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	1
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	1
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain	1
Reception of Rorty’s Thought in Iran: How His Anti-Foundationalism Has Contributed to Iran’s Tradition-Modernity Debate	1
Bibliography for a Travelling Gramsci	1
Anthropology of Water in Varzaneh, Iran	1
The Other Khatibi: Envisaging Arab Intellectuals after the End of Grand Narratives	1
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	1
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Gramsci in the Arab World	1
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	0
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	0
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	0
A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script	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
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	0
Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism: On Motivations and Violence	0
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	0
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	0
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	0
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	0

Editor’s Note	0
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	0
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	0
Sociology of Rival Music Genres and Music Consumption in Post-1979 Revolution Iranian Society	0
Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia	0
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	0
The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development and the Sociopolitical Transformations in Syria and Libya	0
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	0
Weaponizing Democratization: Street Battles and Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt	0
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	0
Comparing the Role of the Military in Iran’s and Egypt’s Revolutions	0
The Academic Question of Palestine	0
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	0
Correction	0
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	0
Claiming Democracy and Environmental Justice at the Margins: Land Rights and Urban Informality as Sites of Mobilization in Morocco	0
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	0
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	0
Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities	0
Emergence, Development, and Impact of Population Displacement in Damascus During Syria’s Civil War	0
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	0
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project	0
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	0
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	0
Modified J-Curve Theory, Iran’s Socio-Economic Bottlenecks and the 1979 Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy	0
Editor’s Note	0
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis	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
The Principled Fine Line in Egypt’s Sociology: Farewell Mona Abaza¹	0
Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War	0
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	0
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity	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
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment	0
IMF’s Social Protection between Rhetoric and Action: The Case of Egypt	0
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	0
Editor’s Note	0
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	0
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	0
Editorial Note	0
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates	0
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	0
Crises of Authority in the Arab World: Readings from Contemporary Tunisia	0
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	0
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis	0
UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC States: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-1993	0
Diasporic Democratic Futures	0
Fuel Smuggling in the West Bank (2018–2021): Palestinian Economic Agency under the Israeli System of Spatial Control	0
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	0
Editor’s Note	0
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution	0
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	0
Correction	0
Editor’s Note	0
Editor’s Note	0
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	0
The Mythological Machine in the Great Civil War (2001–2021):OikosandPolisin Nation-Making	0
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	0
Analysis of Social Capital Trends after Iran’s Islamic Revolution	0
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	0
Normalization and the Erasure of Palestine: Ideology and Myth in Arab Drama Series	0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	0
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	0
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	0
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	0
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	0
Editor’s Note	0
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	0
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	0
The Forms of a Travelling Theory: A New Approach to Gramsci’s Texts	0