OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Middle East Critique is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	28
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	21
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	16
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	13
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	12
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	11
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	10
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	10
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	9
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	8
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	8
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	7
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	7
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	7
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	7
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	7
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	6
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	6
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	6
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	6
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	6
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	5
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	5
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	5
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	5

Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	5
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	5
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	4
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	4
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	4
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	4
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	4
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	4
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	4
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	4
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	4
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	4
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza	4
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	3
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	3
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	3
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	3
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	3
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	3
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	3
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	3
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	2
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	2
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	2
Remix and the Afterlife of Digital Archives: Reconstructing History and Identity in Palestine Remix	2
Iraq, Regime Change, and the Reconstruction of the Security Field: the Rebirth of Impunity in a Disaggregated State	2
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	2
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	2
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	2
Tell China’s Story Well : China and the Middle East	2
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	2
Iraq’s Rhizomatic State and the Politics of Impunity	2
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	2
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	2
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	2
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	2
Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects	2
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	2
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	2

How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	1
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	1
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	1
Introduction: The Impunity Politics of Contested Security in Iraq	1
Prioritized Intermediate Zone: China’s New Third Worldism in the Middle East	1
Euro-American Middle East Studies: An Intellectual Apparatus of Empire	1
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	1
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	1
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	1
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	1
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	1
Correction	1
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen	1
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialismBook Review of Ruy Mauro Marini, The dialectics of dependency . New Yo	1
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	1
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	1
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	1
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	1
Correction	1
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE	1
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	1
Editor’s Note	1
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	1
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	1
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	1
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	1
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	1
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures	1
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide	1