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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	39
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	35
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	21
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	19
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	18
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	18
The Emergence of a Queer Pre -Movement in Sudan	16
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	16
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	15
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	13
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	13
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	12
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	10
The Israel–Palestine Conflict, Neoliberalism and the Global Hegemony of Imperialism—An Interview with Professor Yin Zhiguang, Fudan University	10
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	9
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	9
Framing Gaza: Narratives of Erasure	9
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	8
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	8
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	8
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	8
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	8
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	7
Transregionalizing the Middle East	7
Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	7

Networks of Transregional Power: Migration, Intermediaries, and Governance in the Syrian–Lebanese Context	7
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	7
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	7
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	7
Middle East and Global Strategic Dynamics	7
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	6
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	6
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	6
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	6
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	6
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	6
The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America	6
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	5
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza	5
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	5
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	5
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	5
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	5
Narratives Without Substance: A Critical Review of Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures	5
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	5
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	5
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	5
Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties	4
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	4
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	4
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	4
What the Movement of Contraband Western Brand-Name Sneakers in Iran Can Tell Us About Transregional Territorialization	4
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	4
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	4
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	4
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	3
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	3
All Roads Lead to Beijing? Global Value Chains and China’s ‘Global South Diplomacy’ towards the Arab Countries	3
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	3
‘Look East’ Without Deliverance from Crisis: Iran’s Policy Reorientation and the Predicament of Developing Countries	3
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	3
Universalizing Capital, Foreclosing Necro-Imperialism: Žižek’s Liberal-Zionist Response to the Gaza Genocide	3
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	3
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects	2

The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	2
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	2
Remix and the Afterlife of Digital Archives: Reconstructing History and Identity in Palestine Remix	2
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	2
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	2
The Impossible Factory: Dependency and Elimination in Israel’s Settler-Colonial Economy (1956–1960)	2
Espionage as a Settler-Colonial Practice: The Case of the Palestine–Syrian Front During World War I	2
Tell China’s Story Well : China and the Middle East	2
The Many Forms of Iran’s Foreign Policy Seen Through Its Social Logics	2
Iraq, Regime Change, and the Reconstruction of the Security Field: the Rebirth of Impunity in a Disaggregated State	2
The Decolonization of Minds	2
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	2
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	2
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	2
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	2
Iraq’s Rhizomatic State and the Politics of Impunity	2
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	2
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	2
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE	2
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	2
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	2
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	2
Correction	2
The US-China Strategic Competition in the GCC Countries: A Case of ‘New Infrastructure Statecraft’	2
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Arabia’s Anti-Colonial Hub: Kuwait and the Bahraini Nationalist Movement (1957–1966)	1
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	1
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms	1
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	1
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates	1
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis	1
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide	1
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism	1
Euro-American Middle East Studies: An Intellectual Apparatus of Empire	1
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project	1
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	1
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	1
Prioritized Intermediate Zone: China’s New Third Worldism in the Middle East	1
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	1
Correction	1
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	1
On the Coloniality of Solidarity: Iran, Imperialist Aggression, and the Western Left’s Blind Spot	1
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	1
Syrian Debates	1
Is the Fate of Gaza Sealed? The US–Israeli ‘Imperial Expansion Dream’ Has Just Begun	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
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization	1
Diasporic Democratic Futures	1
The Iraqi Thawrat Tishrīn as a Revolutionary Process	1
The Making of the Duruʿ Working Class: Empire, Oil, and Resistance in Fahud, Oman from the 1950s to the 1970s	1
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	1
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia	1
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	1
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	1
Introduction: The Impunity Politics of Contested Security in Iraq	1
How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order	1
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	1
Erasing the Past: Domicide and Settler Colonialism in Susiya and Sheikh Jarrah	1
The Agency of People Seeking Asylum in Aberdeen: The Micro-Level Impact of Anti-Immigration Policies	1
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
The Sanctions Must Go On: The Transnational Investment Bloc Support for the Iran Sanctions	1
Guest-Editors’ Introduction: Re-Worlding the Gulf: Anomaly as Geopolitical Function	1
Transregional Agency and Politics in Defining the ‘Middle East’: Unpacking Critique and Cartography Through Syrian–Turkish Borderlands	1
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia	1
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialism	1
Editor’s Note	1
The Class Politics of the Rentier State: Rentierism as a Strategy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	1
From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany	1
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen	1
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	1
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures	1
Neom/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia	1
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	1