OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Middle East Womens Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing towards Constitutional Autocracy	8
Astronomy for Girls	3
A Delicate Balancing Act	3
Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad	2
Arab Images	2
Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema	2
Understanding Rojava	2
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938	2
The Pleasures of Domesticity	1
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal	1
The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East	1
A Tribute	1
The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri’sElle Va Nue la Liberté(Freedom Walks Naked)	1
Women Doctors and the Medical Profession in Iraq during the First Half of the Twentieth Century	1
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings	1
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal IslamLGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East	1
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1
From Islamists to Religious Patriots	1
The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen	1
Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations	1
Cover Art Concept	1
Al-ʿUcha	1
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War	1
Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies	1
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0

Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey	0
Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
Of Ants and Men	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
Aaru	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Cover Art Concept	0
“Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?”	0
Remembering Nawal El Saadawi	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0
In Memory of a Woman Doctor	0
Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation	0
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
What I Will Never Forget	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power	0
The Daughter of Isis at Duke University	0
From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
Orientalism without Power?	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
Female Self-Attack and Suicide in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror	0
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0

Abjection of Mother(land)	0
Nursing (Inter)nationalism in Iran, 1916–1947	0
Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
La Vie en Rouge	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
March 28, 2021	0
Race against Time	0
A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance	0
Kurdish Women’s Stories	0
A Feminist Ethos of Point Zero	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	0
The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
Love on Hold	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
The Doubling Self	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
Ladies Aid as Labor History	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan	0
Afifa’s Migration	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Facing the Past	0
Introduction	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
An Ode to Nawal El Saadawi	0
Introduction	0
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
Reframing War	0
Introduction	0
No-Fly Zone	0
A Word from the President	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
Nawal and Sherif Tribute	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
From The Hidden Face of Eve to AWSA Activism to Tahrir	0
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation	0
Ruling by Wife	0
Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
Beauty Standards in Egypt	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Cover Art Concept	0
A Gendered Return	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
Productive Disengagement	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
Remembering Salma	0