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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	45
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	41
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	26
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	25
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	25
The Emergence of a Queer Pre -Movement in Sudan	22
The Palestine Exception: Academic Freedom and the Logic of Occupation in US Higher Education	21
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	20
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	19
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	18
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	18
The Israel–Palestine Conflict, Neoliberalism and the Global Hegemony of Imperialism—An Interview with Professor Yin Zhiguang, Fudan University	16
Palestine and the Western Academe: Fighting the Exception, Defending Epistemic Justice	13
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	13
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	11
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	11
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	11
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	10
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	10
Framing Gaza: Narratives of Erasure	9
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	9
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	9
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	9
Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	8
Networks of Transregional Power: Migration, Intermediaries, and Governance in the Syrian–Lebanese Context	8

Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	8
Middle East and Global Strategic Dynamics	8
Transregionalizing the Middle East	8
‘In Our Thousands, In Our Millions, We Are All Palestinians’: Global Palestine and the Antinomies of Solidarity	8
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	8
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	8
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	8
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	7
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	7
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	7
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	7
The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America	7
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	7
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	7
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	6
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	6
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza	6
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	6
Narratives Without Substance: A Critical Review of Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures	6
Chronicle of Victory: State Resistance, Autonomy, and the Imposed Wars in Modern Iran	5
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	5
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	5
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	5
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	5
The War Against Iran and the Dialectics of Resistance	5
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	5
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	4
What the Movement of Contraband Western Brand-Name Sneakers in Iran Can Tell Us About Transregional Territorialization	4
Examining ‘Victory’: Outcomes and Implications of the Hezbollah-Israeli Conflict (2023-2024)	4
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	4
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
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	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
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
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	3
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	3
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	3

All Roads Lead to Beijing? Global Value Chains and China’s ‘Global South Diplomacy’ towards the Arab Countries	3
‘Look East’ Without Deliverance from Crisis: Iran’s Policy Reorientation and the Predicament of Developing Countries	3