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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing towards Constitutional Autocracy	16
Astronomy for Girls	7
Gendered Reincarnations	6
Arab Images	4
Stitching Armenian Imagination	4
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938	3
Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad	3
Cover Art Concept	3
Understanding Rojava	3
What’s Left of Us?	2
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings	2
The Pleasures of Domesticity	2
Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema	2
Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria	2
Al-ʿUcha	1
From Islamists to Religious Patriots	1
Kurdish Women’s Stories	1
Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr	1
Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal	1
From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy	1
The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East	1
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique	1
Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey	1
The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen	1
Deterritorialized in the Homeland	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
Cover Art Concept	1
From Café Culture to Tweets	0
Remembering Salma	0
A Gendered Return	0
From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”	0
Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism	0
Drawing Dissent from the Assad Regime to Beirut Uprisings	0
The Mother-Daughter Dyad	0
Muslim Women and Social Activism	0
Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI	0
Health, the Body, and Female Authority in Ibn al-Ḥājj’s al-Madkhal	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
From Australia to Italy and Palestine	0
The Nexus between Gender-Confirming Surgery and Illness	0
Decolonizing Transnational Feminism	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 LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey	0
The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book	0
Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt	0
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era	0
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage	0
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide	0
Sanctions as Siege	0
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces	0
Saving the Modern Woman	0
Tracking Down Anticolonial Feminist Militants in the Archive	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions	0
Women Weavers and Their Agency	0
“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”	0
Arab Comics Collectives as Catalysts of Change	0
The Gaza School Birth	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
Cover Art Concept	0
Of Ants and Men	0
“My Body, My Decision!”	0
Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman	0
Manufacturing Madonnas	0
Reframing War	0
“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States	0
Sites of Dialogue, Sites of Struggle for Power in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights	0
Introduction	0
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South	0
State-Led Antigender Politics, Islamism, and the University	0
Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony	0
Women Writing in Cairo	0

A First Glance at the Woman in the Mirror	0
For My Mother, Nawal	0
Cover Art Concept	0
“Nishtiman” Is Her Name	0
The Body in Pain and Pleasure	0
Love on Hold	0
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities	0
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
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities	0
The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice	0
“Saving” Anatolian Girls	0
The Ritual Fusion	0
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame	0
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World	0
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Toward New Feminist Aesthetics	0
Introduction	0
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey	0
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	0
Cover Art Concept	0
With Love, from Your Sister	0
Turkish Kaleidoscope	0
Power, Belonging, and Respectability	0
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries	0
Politics of Location in Persepolis	0
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic	0
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran	0
Abjection of Mother(land)	0
Between Patriarchal Intimacy and Sovereign Violence	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	0
Aaru	0
Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey	0
Lost in Translation	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
No-Fly Zone	0
Whose Gender Counts?	0
A Palestinian Woman’s Writings	0
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation	0
Ruling by Wife	0
The Roots of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in 2022 in Iran	0
Intellectual and Creative Paradigms	0
The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki’s Artistic Activism	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
Solidarity as Life-Giving Affect	0
Worlding a Peripheral Museum, Evental Time in the Middle East, and the Fabulation of the People-to-Come	0
SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures	0
The Doubling Self	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account	0
Race against Time	0
The Quiet Part of Sanctions	0
The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region	0
Solely Carers and Nurturers?	0
Cover Art Concept	0
Introduction to Forum	0
“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”	0
The Genocide in Gaza and the Selective Plot of Women’s Rights Solidarity	0
Productive Disengagement	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
Naturalizing Motherhood	0
Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine	0
Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān	0
Violent/Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and The Making of an Urban World	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul	0
Djinn as the “Embodiment of Knowledge”	0
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria	0