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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Myth of Turkish Islam: the influence of Naqshbandi-Gümüşhanevi thought in Turkish Islamic orthodoxy	10
The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines: a critical discourse analysis	9
Youth and political engagement in post-revolution Tunisia	9
Departing ‘Secularism’: boundary appropriation and extension of the Syrian state in the religious domain since 2011	8
Authoritarianism in the information age: state branding, depoliticizing and ‘de-civilizing’ of online civil society in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates	5
Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture	5
The inter-Islamic competition and the shift in al-Nur party stance towards civil state in Egypt	5
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics	5
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul: provocative counterorganization, violent interpellation and sectarian fears	4
Egyptian foreign policy after the 2011 revolution: the dynamics of continuity and change	4
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination	4
The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP	4
Stagnation Vs adaptation: tracking the Muslim Brotherhood’s trajectories after the 2013 coup	4
Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018: A Discursive-Institutional Study	4
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	3
Afghans in Iran: the state and the working of immigration policies	3
Negotiating patriarchal relationships to become economically active: an insight into the agency of Syrian refugee women in Jordan using frameworks of womanism and intersectionality	3
Queer counterpublics and LGBTQ pop-activism in Jordan	3
Ideology matters: cultural power in the case of Daesh	3
The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution	3
Revisiting multilateralism in the Middle East between securitization and desecuritization of the Kurds	3
Islamism and the rise of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia: claiming political Islam through other means?	3
Willpower: auto-ethnographic insights into the challenges that women encounter in academia	3
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz	3
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals	2

Constructing new Turkey’s desired worker: the denial of social class in the AKP era	2
On Palestinian Yiddish and Ashkenazi Arabic in 18-19 century Palestine: a language-oriented new look on Jewish-Arab relations	2
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran	2
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia	2
Active on the street but apathetic at the ballot box? Explaining youth voter behaviour in Tunisia’s new democracy	2
Engendering hunger strikes: Palestinian women in Israeli prisons	2
Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: forms of capital approach	2
The Arab Rationalist Association and the turn to Nahḍah in contemporary Arab thought	2
Sectarianism in the service of Salafism: Shiites as a political tool for Jordanian Salafis	2
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–2013	2
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia	2
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?	2
Political time and leadership in the Middle East: an analysis of 22 prominent leaders	2
When colonialism and nationalism meet - but speak a different language: the case of Haifa during the British Mandate	2
‘Revenge of the jobniks’? Soldier representation and resistance in contemporary Israeli popular culture	1
Baudrillard in Ankara: mainstream media and the production of simulacra in the Turkish public sphere	1
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change	1
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	1
The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative	1
Islam and existentialism in Turkey during the Cold War in the works of Sezai Karakoç	1
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period	1
Kurdish subjectivity: Liminal Kurd characters stymied in harsh liminal contexts in Sherzad Hassan’s short fiction	1
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran	1
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution	1
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance	1
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco	1
The rise of hybrid political Islam in Turkey - origins and consolidation of the JDP	1
Space, place and consciousness; Explorations on Jewish identity in Amos Oz’s life narrative A Tale of Love and Darkness	1
Musical spirits and poetic tongues: oral traditions in the cultural politics of Kurdish intellectuals (1920s-1940s)	1
Orchestrating Palestinian youth political socialization during theBritishMandate (1917-1948): policies and community responses	1
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation ( taṭbīr )	1
The Russo-Ottoman struggle over the support of the Muslims of Southern Caucasus in the 1890s	1
From ‘ yol ’ to diasporic Alevism: migration and religious change among Alevis in Britain	1
Political economies of the middle east and north Africa	1
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	1
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–2017	1
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections	1
175 years of persecution: a history of the Babis and Baha’is of Iran	1
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring	1
British policy towards Iran 1809-1914: the question of cost	1
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	1
Demographic analysis on social perceptions of Hijab in contemporary Iran: dimensions and determinants	1
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	1
Returning the megaphone to the people: the Theatre of the Oppressed as artivism in the public space for a new critical citizenry in Morocco	1
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon: a discursive and semiotic analysis	1
Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran	1
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility	1
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas	1
Alevism as Islam: rethinking Shahab Ahmed’s conceptualization of Islam through Alevi poetry	1

Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	1
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	1
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: social justice and the rise of dystopian art and literature post-Arab Uprisings	1
The cinema of the young Muslim Brothers: claiming a space in Egyptian pop culture	1
Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran	1
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts	1
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications	1
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media	1
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	1
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses	1
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices	1
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan	1
Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?	1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations	1
Political thinking performed: popular cultures as arenas of consent and resistance	1