OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Middle East Critique is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	31
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	24
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	17
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	14
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	13
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	12
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	11
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	11
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	9
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	9
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	8
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	8
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	8
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	8
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	8
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	8
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	7
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	7
Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	6
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	6
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	6
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	6
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	6
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	5
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	5

Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	5
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	5
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	5
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	5
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	5
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	4
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	4
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	4
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	4
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	4
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	4
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	4
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	4
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	4
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	4
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza	4
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	4
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	4
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	3
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	3
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	3
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	3
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	3
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	3
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	3
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	3
Iraq, Regime Change, and the Reconstruction of the Security Field: the Rebirth of Impunity in a Disaggregated State	2
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	2
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	2
Tell China’s Story Well : China and the Middle East	2
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	2
Iraq’s Rhizomatic State and the Politics of Impunity	2
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	2
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	2
Editor’s Note	2
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	2
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	2
The Many Forms of Iran’s Foreign Policy Seen Through Its Social Logics	2
Remix and the Afterlife of Digital Archives: Reconstructing History and Identity in Palestine Remix	2

The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	2
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	2
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	2
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	2
Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects	2
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	1
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	1
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	1
From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany	1
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	1
Euro-American Middle East Studies: An Intellectual Apparatus of Empire	1
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	1
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	1
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures	1
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	1
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms	1
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	1
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen	1
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	1
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	1
The Decolonization of Minds	1
Introduction: The Impunity Politics of Contested Security in Iraq	1
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	1
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	1
Prioritized Intermediate Zone: China’s New Third Worldism in the Middle East	1
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	1
The Iraqi Thawrat Tishrīn as a Revolutionary Process	1
How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order	1
Erasing the Past: Domicide and Settler Colonialism in Susiya and Sheikh Jarrah	1
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	1
Syrian Debates	1
Correction	1
Correction	1
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	1
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	1
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide	1
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution	1
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	1
The Class Politics of the Rentier State: Rentierism as a Strategy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	1
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialism	1
The Sanctions Must Go On: The Transnational Investment Bloc Support for the Iran Sanctions	1
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	1
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	1
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	1
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	1
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	1
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE	1