OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces *What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p*	20
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	11
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	9
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	9
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	7
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A	5
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	5
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	4
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	4
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	4
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	4
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	4
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	4
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English	4
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	3
Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activis	3
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	3
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	3
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	3
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	3
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	3
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
Managing religion and religious changes in Iran: a socio-legal analysis	2
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2

Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran	2
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–2017	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers	2
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	2
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring , by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John O. Voll, Oxford, Oxford University Press	2
An Ottoman mission to Tehran: Mehmed Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Tehran and the re-making of Perso-Ottoman relations (1876-1897)	2
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis **Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis** , by Siniša Malešev	2
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics	1
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French:	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes	1
A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic , by Fatemeh Shams, Oxford, Oxford	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey *States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey*	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	1
China’s rise in the global south	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran *Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran*	1
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 ^th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship *The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship*	1

Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar *Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar*	1
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence *Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence* , by M	1
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1