OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Middle East Critique is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	40
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	37
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	22
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	20
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	20
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	20
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	17
The Emergence of a Queer Pre -Movement in Sudan	17
The Palestine Exception: Academic Freedom and the Logic of Occupation in US Higher Education	16
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	14
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	14
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	13
The Israel–Palestine Conflict, Neoliberalism and the Global Hegemony of Imperialism—An Interview with Professor Yin Zhiguang, Fudan University	11
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	11
Framing Gaza: Narratives of Erasure	10
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	10
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	9
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	9
Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	8
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	8
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	8
Middle East and Global Strategic Dynamics	8
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	8
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	8
Transregionalizing the Middle East	8

Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	8
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	8
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	8
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	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
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	7
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
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	6
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	6
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	6
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	6
The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America	6
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	5
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	5
Narratives Without Substance: A Critical Review of Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures	5
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	5
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	5
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
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	5
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
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	4
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	4
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
Examining ‘Victory’: Outcomes and Implications of the Hezbollah-Israeli Conflict (2023-2024)	4
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	4
Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties	4
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	4
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	4
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	3
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	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
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	3
Reimagining Intercultural Communication Through Chinese Cosmopolitanism	3
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
All Roads Lead to Beijing? Global Value Chains and China’s ‘Global South Diplomacy’ towards the Arab Countries	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3