Middle East Critique

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices19
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions12
Palestine and the Ends of Theory8
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique8
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East8
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television7
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces6
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University5
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement5
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity5
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine5
Impact of 1962-68 North Yemen War on Cold War Balance of Power4
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification4
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)4
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present4
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring4
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role4
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory3
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection3
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon3
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants3
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement3
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies3
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel3
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’3
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition3
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)3
10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism3
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons3
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah2
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide2
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique2
Editor’s Note2
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic2
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak2
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present2
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology2
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas2
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies2
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic2
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria2
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach2
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran2
Editor’s Note1
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective1
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement1
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation1
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem1
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women1
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-19801
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran1
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon1
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice1
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders1
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution1
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine1
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya1
The Principled Fine Line in Egypt’s Sociology: Farewell Mona Abaza11
Correction1
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE1
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints1
Taifa: A Journey of Integration beyond the Subaltern Narrative1
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics1
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism1
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 19631
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development1
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism1
Modified J-Curve Theory, Iran’s Socio-Economic Bottlenecks and the 1979 Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy0
Palestine Studies, Knowledge Production, and the Struggle for Decolonisation0
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 Conjuncture0
Editor’s Note0
Weaponizing Democratization: Street Battles and Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt0
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom0
The Defiant Ones: The Growing Alignment of Turkish-Qatari Interests Since 19850
Editorial Note0
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt0
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity0
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis0
Symbolic Megaprojects: Atatürk’s Mausoleum in Turkey and the Construction of Hegemony0
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy0
Guest-Editors’ Introduction: Re-Worlding the Gulf: Anomaly as Geopolitical Function0
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden0
Editor’s Note0
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon0
UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC States: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-19930
Palestine, and the Colonial Unconscious of German Critical Theory0
Five-Star Humanitarianism? Navigating Gulf Aid in the Aftermath of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan0
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment0
Salafi Women in Contemporary Egypt: The Politics of Integration0
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)0
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution0
‘The High Art Unites Us’: Staging Unity Through Honoring in Cairo’s Literary Clubs0
The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents0
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations0
Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia0
One Thousand and One Cities: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Challenges over a Half-Century of Urbanization in Iran0
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 Yo0
Bargaining for the Colonial Model of Conditional Citizenship: The Local Civic Discourse among Palestinian Citizens in Israel over the Last Decade0
Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds0
Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War0
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide0
From Erasure to Expression: Aroosa Kanwal's Reinscription of Muslim Subjectivity and the Biopolitics of Being in Postcolonial Discourse0
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia0
The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont: Reimagining the Middle East in World History0
IMF’s Social Protection between Rhetoric and Action: The Case of Egypt0
Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism: On Motivations and Violence0
Correction0
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine0
Sociology of Rival Music Genres and Music Consumption in Post-1979 Revolution Iranian Society0
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia0
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception0
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms0
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project0
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures0
Historical Overview of Development’s Impact on Rural and Urban Governance in Iran0
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony0
Crises of Authority in the Arab World: Readings from Contemporary Tunisia0
Emergence, Development, and Impact of Population Displacement in Damascus During Syria’s Civil War0
Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?0
Editor’s Note0
Trading Wheat for Books in the Cold War: Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) and Its Connection to Middle East Studies0
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis0
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon0
Land Reform and Kurdish Nationalism in Postcolonial Iraq0
A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script0
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond0
The Academic Question of Palestine0
Anthropology of Water in Varzaneh, Iran0
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema0
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain0
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism0
Educational Influence on Political Culture: Insights from Israel’s Arab Political Elite0
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)0
‘Expectations Kill. Please Do Not Expect’: The Intimate Effects of Revolution and the Questioning of Normality0
Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia0
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests0
Afghanistan’s Political Settlement Puzzle: The Impact of the Breakdown of Afghan Political Parties to an Elite Polity System (2001–2021)0
Diasporic Democratic Futures0
‘I Have Learned Things Late in Life’: The Aftereffects of Revolutionary Participation in Egypt0
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia0
Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities0
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates0
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause0
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization0
The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development and the Sociopolitical Transformations in Syria and Libya0
The Politics of Faith among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Increasing Human Capital and Public Engagement0
Interwoven Dynamics of Israel and El Salvador as Nodes in a Global Carceral Archipelago Dominated by US Imperialism0
Palestinian Music and the Potential for the Nation Branding of Palestine0
China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman0
Editor’s Note0
Normalization and the Erasure of Palestine: Ideology and Myth in Arab Drama Series0
Analysis of Social Capital Trends after Iran’s Islamic Revolution0
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria0
Gezi Insurgency as ‘Counter-Conduct’0
Fuel Smuggling in the West Bank (2018–2021): Palestinian Economic Agency under the Israeli System of Spatial Control0
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter0
Claiming Democracy and Environmental Justice at the Margins: Land Rights and Urban Informality as Sites of Mobilization in Morocco0
American Colony in Jerusalem: Rebuilding the Eight Palestinian Villages Buried by USA Independence Park0
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran0
Correction0
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