OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Middle Eastern Studies 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
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability	4
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union	4
Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity,	4
Refounding the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia from Islamism and Wahhabism to ‘Moderate’ Islam	4
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity	4
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire	3
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)	3
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 1899	3
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)	3
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze	3
The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood	3
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante	3
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 2006	3
Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire	2
‘We have the right to work’: the rise of the ‘national economy’ and reformulating the demands of the women’s movement in the pages of Kadınlar Dünyası in the post Balkan Wars era	2
Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic	2
Prize announcement	2
The old elite against the new state: the fall of the Kıbrıslızade family and their struggle with the Committee of Union and Progress	2
Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa	2
Beyond the usual suspects – bringing in Kuwait’s Shiʿi Islamists	2
From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices	2
Hereditary succession in the mütevelli office: the case of the Menteşe region (1913–1920)	2
MI6’s hidden hand in Syria and the early Cold War in the Middle East 1944–1947: Part I	2
Mollā Nasreddin: the making of a modern trickster (1906-1911)	2
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture	2

Between the sacred and the profane: conflicts between football and sharia in Iran	2
The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis	2
Examples from Ottoman Tanzimat literature of the representation of women: modernisation and anti-colonial approaches	2
Israel and the Gulf monarchies: a new Regional Security Complex or just complex regional security?	2
Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 1949	2
UAE book review	2
Revolutionizing the past: representations of the Mamluks in Egyptian school textbooks, 1954–1970	2
A reply by David Tal	1
Noah’s Ark, Nebuchadnezzar’s seed, and the prince of Malabar: the curious and bizarre life of John Joseph Nouri	1
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois	1
Re-examining the Foundations of US–Gulf relations	1
Nuclear topsy turvy: the security-economics nexus in Turkish-American relations	1
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords	1
A convivial space: the urban khan in Ottoman Istanbul from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries	1
The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship	1
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone	1
Darwin in the Dar al-Funun: the translation, adaptation, and contestation of evolutionary theory in Qajar Iran (1851–1906): a comprehensive analysis of scientific knowledge transfer and political tran	1
The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdul Koudous and Gamal Abdel Nasser	1
A tribal confederation at the intersection of the Ottoman, Russian and Qajar empires: the Zilan Confederation and the empires (1810–1860)	1
After the 1933 revolt, Nestorians’ search for a homeland outside Iraq (1933–1936)	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Cyprus’s relations with Egypt and Israel during the Makarios era: influence of regional disputes, economy, socio-cultural interactions and UN debates	1
Nomads in the Middle East	1
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 1860	1
On Shaky Ground: Iran between Israel and Pan-Arabism, 1930s–1970s	1
The concept of the individual in early republican intellectual discourse: an analysis of Hayat journal (1926–1929)	1
The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s	1
Making of the Unionist bureaucracy: purging the Hamidian cadres, rule of law, and the limits of the Unionist power (1908–1910)	1
Critically assessing the contours of relations between the AKP and Islamic movements after the July 15 coup attempt: the Furkan Vakfi case	1
The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts	1
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth	1
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine	1
Reassessing the regional political system: the changing role of Israel and Palestine in the strategic narratives of Gulf states expressed in the UN Security Council (2020–2024)	1
The 1980s ‘debt crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa: framing regional dynamics within the international stage at UNCTAD	1
Leftism at an Islamic school: indoctrinating the youth at Saida’s Makassed Islamic Secondary	1
Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem , by Graham Addison	1
Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt	1
‘Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War	1
Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza: a multilateral move under unilateral façade	1
An analytical study of ethnic identity components in the works of contemporary Kurdish painters in Iranian Kurdistan from 1981–2019	1
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)	1
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–1842	1
Between parliamentary control and fiscal discipline: the General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25 (1925) on the eve of Pahlavi rule	1
National mission or a ‘civilizing mission’? Birthrates, perceptions, and East–West relations in Mandatory Palestine	1
The Bedouins in Palestine during the Egyptian occupation 1831–1840	1
Segregation in Mandatory Jerusalem and economic interests	1
Iranian communists and the Palestine question (1947–1956)	1
Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution	1
Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952)	1
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar	1

Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–1939	1
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers	1