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 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
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

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 World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis	0
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity	0
Solidarity as Life-Giving Affect	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
“Saving” Anatolian Girls	0
Cover Art Concept	0
A First Glance at the Woman in the Mirror	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	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
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey	0
Turkish Kaleidoscope	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
Naturalizing Motherhood	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
Cover Art Concept	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Violent/Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World	0
Introduction	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
Djinn as the “Embodiment of Knowledge”	0
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
Remembering Salma	0
A Gendered Return	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	0
Introduction to Forum	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
Lost in Translation	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
No-Fly Zone	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
Intellectual and Creative Paradigms	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
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul	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
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	0
On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt	0

The Doubling Self	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse	0
Stipulations in Iranian Women’s Marriage Contracts	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Productive Disengagement	0
Reframing War	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame	0
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
Worlding a Peripheral Museum, Evental Time in the Middle East, and the Fabulation of the People-to-Come	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
“Nishtiman” Is Her Name	0
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Love on Hold	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
“Contrary to the Order of Nature”	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Cover Art Concept	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Arab Comics Collectives as Catalysts of Change	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
Drawing Dissent from the Assad Regime to Beirut Uprisings	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Cover Art Concept	0
The Genocide in Gaza and the Selective Plot of Women’s Rights Solidarity	0
The Gaza School Birth	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence	0
Race against Time	0
Of Ants and Men	0
Aaru	0
Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective	0
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
Whose Gender Counts?	0
Introduction	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Ruling by Wife	0