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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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*	15
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	11
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	9
What does antisectarianism oppose? Lebanese communists’ debates on sectarianism, 1975–1981	9
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	8
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	5
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	5
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	5
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	4
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A	4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	4
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	4
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	3
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	3
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	3
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	3
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis **Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis** , by Siniša Malešev	2
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–2017	2
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	2
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	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
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2

Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey	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
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	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates	2
Syrian female detainees: pathetic or heroic victims?	2
The west’s war against Islamic state: operation inherent resolve in Syria and Iraq	2
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	2
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	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
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar *Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar*	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels	1
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	1
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence *Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence* , by M	1
The stories of rebellious children at the time of the 1979 revolution	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
British diplomacy and the Iranian revolution, 1978-1981 (security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world)	1
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey *States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey*	1
Iranian women & gender in the Iran-Iraq war	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship *The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship*	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
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	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
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1
Polygyny in Islam: a call for retrospection	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 ^th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
The Muslim brotherhood in Syria	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1

Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	1
Watermelon democracy: Egypt’s turbulent transition	1
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey , by Elise Massicard, Stanford, CA, Stanford	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
The Israeli policing army – the gray arm of annexation	1