OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Middle Eastern Literatures is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the land of Palestine: deserts, shores, seas	1
The modern arabic bible: translation, dissemination, and literary impact	1
War remains: ruination and resistance in Lebanon	1
What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?	1
In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres	0
“Pantomime”: A short story by Sami Paşazade Sezai	0
Fragile ecologies	0
The Tent Generation: Palestinian Poems	0
The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies	0
Muḥammad al-Māghūṭ’s rhetoric of sincerity: a major voice in modern Arabic poetry	0
Forms of Hesitation: Tadhabdhub and Metrical Hybridity in Syrian tafʿīla poetry, 1962–1975	0
Nation and self: towards Kurdish subjectivity in Mehmed Uzun’s novels	0
A Distinct Flânerie: Roleplaying and Affective Responses to the City in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Miskinler Tekkesi	0
“To dance like Solomon: imitation and martyrdom in a Qajarghazal”	0
Translation and adaptation studies on common ground: the Murat Davman crime fiction series	0
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ	0
“Rubailer,” maqāṭīʿ, and a transhistorical approach to the work of Nâzım Hikmet	0
Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan	0
Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt	0
Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria	0
Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring	0
Al-Qaṣīdah al-baṣariyyah fī-l-shiʿir al-ʿarabī al-ḥadīth (The Visual Poem in Modern Arabic Poetry)	0
Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’sSeason of Migration to the North	0
Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film	0
Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’sal-Sāqʿalā al-sāq	0

Sadeq Hedayat’s vegetarianism: a few notes on the representation of vegetarianism, animals and animal rights in Sadeq Hedayat’s Favāʾid-i giyāhkhārī (The benefits of veg	0
From social and national struggle in Mandate Palestine to combatting fascism in Spain: Yassin’s ʿAlī, Qissat Rajul Mustaqīm (2017)	0
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism	0
Experimentation and the absurd in two plays by Syrian playwright Walīd Ikhlāṣī	0
On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability	0
Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres	0
Making room in the premodern Persian poetic canon for Mahsatī and Rābʿiah	0
On the margins of Beirut’s cultural modernism: aesthetics and politics in the inter-artistic works of Laure Ghorayeb	0
Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry , by Levi Thompson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 23	0
“My poetry is not a servant” the political poetry of Saudi Arabian dissident poet Abdallah al-Hamid	0
Unmasking the Caspian tiger: visibility, disguise, and identity in Murathan Mungan’s poetry	0
Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures	0
“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury	0
Poetry, satire, and self in the post-constitutional Iranian-Jewish periodical Ha-Hayyim	0
Dedication	0
The translator of desires	0
“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam	0
Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction	0
Kamāl al-Dīn Banāʾī’sBahrām va Bihrūz: A Persian romancequamirror for princes in light of Aq Qoyunlu history	0
The master’s slap: bodies, books, and variations on an image by Ṣā’ib Tabrīzī	0
The classical discovery of modern (book) history	0
“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai	0
A Dove in Free Flight A Dove in Free Flight , edited by Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani, Translated by the New York Translation Collective, New York, Upset Press, 2	0
Syrian poetry in exile: the case of Wafai Laila	0
Beholding beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the aesthetics of desire in medieval Persian poetry	0
Is the Arabnahḍahreally Arabic? Literary translingualisms in thenahḍah'scontact zones	0
Arabic exile literature in Europe. Defamiliarising forced migration	0
In memory of Franklin Lewis, the Translator	0
Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly	0
The concept of a house/home in the poetry of the Nineties Poets – Ḥattā atakhallā ʿan fikrat al-buyūt by Īmān Mirsāl as a model	0
The stakes of “Imitation”: debating modern poetics and national identity in late ottoman literature	0
Hafiz and his contemporaries: poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth-century Iran	0
Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy	0
Refugee narratives in contemporary Turkish literature: a human-centered exploration	0
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature	0
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry	0
In memoriam: Franklin Lewis (1961-2022)	0
“Show me one man”: corporeality, heroism and the holy women “saints” of Medieval Islam	0
Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki	0
Reading Byron in Palestine: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, translation, and the liberal poetics of exile	0
Threading the racial capitalocene: on the poetics of affective porosity in Ibrahim al-Koni'sBleeding of the Stone(Nazīf al-ḥajar) and Yoel Hoffmann'sBook of Joseph(Sefer Yosef<	0
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh	0
Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-modernity and urban visual culture in the mid-twentieth century Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-modernity and urban visual culture in the mid-twentieth century	0
Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl	0
Arabic posthuman: bee, beehive and beekeeper in a reconceptualizing of the human	0
Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq	0