OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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
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
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
Women Writing in Cairo	0

Productive Disengagement	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
In Memory of a Woman Doctor	0
Remembering Salma	0
What I Will Never Forget	0
Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
Of Ants and Men	0
The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Orientalism without Power?	0
Aaru	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	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
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
La Vie en Rouge	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Nursing (Inter)nationalism in Iran, 1916–1947	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day	0
Cover Art Concept	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Race against Time	0
Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation	0
A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance	0
Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
A Feminist Ethos of Point Zero	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality	0
The Daughter of Isis at Duke University	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
Cover Art Concept	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0

Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
Ladies Aid as Labor History	0
Review Editor’s Note	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
Facing the Past	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History	0
On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt	0
Cover Art Concept	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul	0
Introduction	0
March 28, 2021	0
Introduction	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Kurdish Women’s Stories	0
Nawal and Sherif Tribute	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
No-Fly Zone	0
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
The Doubling Self	0
From The Hidden Face of Eve to AWSA Activism to Tahrir	0
Love on Hold	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Ruling by Wife	0
Afifa’s Migration	0
Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
Introduction	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
A Gendered Return	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
An Ode to Nawal El Saadawi	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Reframing War	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
A Word from the President	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders	0
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation	0
“Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?”	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Remembering Nawal El Saadawi	0
Beauty Standards in Egypt	0