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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing towards Constitutional Autocracy	17
Astronomy for Girls	7
Arab Images	6
Stitching Armenian Imagination	4
Cover Art Concept	4
Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad	3
Gendered Reincarnations	3
Understanding Rojava	3
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938	3
Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema	2
The Pleasures of Domesticity	2
What’s Left of Us?	2
Cover Art Concept	2
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings	2
Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria	2
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1
Al-ʿUcha	1
The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri’sElle Va Nue la Liberté(Freedom Walks Naked)	1
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon	1
The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen	1
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal	1
From Islamists to Religious Patriots	1
Kurdish Women’s Stories	1
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	1
Deterritorialized in the Homeland	1

The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East	1
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation	1
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	1
Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey	1
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
Djinn as the “Embodiment of Knowledge”	0
Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	0
Remembering Salma	0
Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders	0
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective	0
Introduction to Forum	0
Whose Gender Counts?	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Lost in Translation	0
Ruling by Wife	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
No-Fly Zone	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
Intellectual and Creative Paradigms	0
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
A First Glance at the Woman in the Mirror	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
The Doubling Self	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
Naturalizing Motherhood	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	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
Introduction	0
Productive Disengagement	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse	0
Violent/Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Reframing War	0
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
A Gendered Return	0
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0

Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
Worlding a Peripheral Museum, Evental Time in the Middle East, and the Fabulation of the People-to-Come	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Love on Hold	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
Drawing Dissent from the Assad Regime to Beirut Uprisings	0
Stipulations in Iranian Women’s Marriage Contracts	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
The Gaza School Birth	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Of Ants and Men	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Aaru	0
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame	0
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Introduction	0
“Nishtiman” Is Her Name	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
Solidarity as Life-Giving Affect	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
“Saving” Anatolian Girls	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Arab Comics Collectives as Catalysts of Change	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey	0
Turkish Kaleidoscope	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
The Genocide in Gaza and the Selective Plot of Women’s Rights Solidarity	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Race against Time	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence	0