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

Article	Citations
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	33
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	26
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	16
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	14
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	12
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	12
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	11
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	11
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	10
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	10
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	9
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	9
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	8
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	8
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	8
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	8
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	8
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	7
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	7
Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	6
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	6
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	6
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	6
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	6

Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	6
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	6
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	5
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	5
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	5
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	5
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	5
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	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	4
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	4
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	4
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	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
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	4
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	4
All Roads Lead to Beijing? Global Value Chains and China’s ‘Global South Diplomacy’ towards the Arab Countries	3
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	3
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	3
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	3
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	3
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	3
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	3
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	3
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	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