Middle East Critique

Papers
(The median citation count of Middle East Critique 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.)
ArticleCitations
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices25
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions13
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba10
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique10
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East9
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East9
Palestine and the Ends of Theory8
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms8
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy7
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television7
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces6
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity6
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University6
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement5
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine5
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present5
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry4
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century4
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons4
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection4
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition4
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring4
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement4
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)4
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role4
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification4
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory3
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel3
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures3
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies3
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants3
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse3
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt3
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza3
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought3
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons3
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies3
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)3
10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism3
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’3
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic2
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria2
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women2
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism2
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide2
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution2
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic2
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology2
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?2
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon2
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present2
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran2
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique2
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach2
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations2
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?1
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution1
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas1
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem1
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice1
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran1
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon1
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders1
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya1
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics1
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine1
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 19631
The Principled Fine Line in Egypt’s Sociology: Farewell Mona Abaza11
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective1
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism1
Editor’s Note1
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement1
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation1
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism1
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development1
Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon1
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints1
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-19801
Correction1
Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism: On Motivations and Violence0
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project0
The Class Politics of the Rentier State: Rentierism as a Strategy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq0
Correction0
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment0
Emergence, Development, and Impact of Population Displacement in Damascus During Syria’s Civil War0
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia0
A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script0
China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman0
The Sanctions Must Go On: The Transnational Investment Bloc Support for the Iran Sanctions0
The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents0
Editor’s Note0
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon0
Anthropology of Water in Varzaneh, Iran0
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony0
Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities0
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter0
Gezi Insurgency as ‘Counter-Conduct’0
Back to Normal – Whose Normal? The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and the Staging of a New Postrevolutionary Normality in Egypt0
How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order0
Spectacles of Poverty, Governmentality and De-Democratization: Yemeni Labor Migrants in Saudi Arabia0
The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development and the Sociopolitical Transformations in Syria and Libya0
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema0
The Academic Question of Palestine0
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism0
Imagining Sect and Class Through Cosmetic Surgery: ‘Self-Care’ as Social Distinction in Lebanon0
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom0
Bargaining for the Colonial Model of Conditional Citizenship: The Local Civic Discourse among Palestinian Citizens in Israel over the Last Decade0
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia0
Editorial Note0
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide0
Challenging the Proxy Narrative: Hezbollah, Iran, and the Reimagining of Islamic Resistance in the Ummah0
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates0
Extractive Water Policies as a Driver of Capitalism Expansion in the Mediterranean: Analyzing Tunisia’s Commodity Frontier0
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms0
The ‘War on Terror’ as Primitive Accumulation in Tunisia: US-Led Imperialism and the Post-2010-2011 Revolt/Security Conjuncture0
Editor’s Note0
Modified J-Curve Theory, Iran’s Socio-Economic Bottlenecks and the 1979 Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy0
Interwoven Dynamics of Israel and El Salvador as Nodes in a Global Carceral Archipelago Dominated by US Imperialism0
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy0
Palestine, and the Colonial Unconscious of German Critical Theory0
UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC States: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-19930
Crises of Authority in the Arab World: Readings from Contemporary Tunisia0
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt0
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis0
Five-Star Humanitarianism? Navigating Gulf Aid in the Aftermath of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan0
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests0
Educational Influence on Political Culture: Insights from Israel’s Arab Political Elite0
The Politics of Faith among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Increasing Human Capital and Public Engagement0
Analysis of Social Capital Trends after Iran’s Islamic Revolution0
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)0
Claiming Democracy and Environmental Justice at the Margins: Land Rights and Urban Informality as Sites of Mobilization in Morocco0
One Thousand and One Cities: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Challenges over a Half-Century of Urbanization in Iran0
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran0
From Drone Strikes to Coalition Bombings: The United States and Ruination of Yemen0
Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War0
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond0
Land Reform and Kurdish Nationalism in Postcolonial Iraq0
The ‘Yemeni Threat’ to Saudi Arabia: Mirage in the Desert or Quicksand Beneath the Throne?0
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”0
Sociology of Rival Music Genres and Music Consumption in Post-1979 Revolution Iranian Society0
Editor’s Note0
Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia0
Prioritized Intermediate Zone: China’s New Third Worldism in the Middle East0
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain0
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia0
‘I Have Learned Things Late in Life’: The Aftereffects of Revolutionary Participation in Egypt0
Correction0
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine0
From Erasure to Expression: Aroosa Kanwal's Reinscription of Muslim Subjectivity and the Biopolitics of Being in Postcolonial Discourse0
Guest-Editors’ Introduction: Re-Worlding the Gulf: Anomaly as Geopolitical Function0
Symbolic Megaprojects: Atatürk’s Mausoleum in Turkey and the Construction of Hegemony0
‘Expectations Kill. Please Do Not Expect’: The Intimate Effects of Revolution and the Questioning of Normality0
Historical Overview of Development’s Impact on Rural and Urban Governance in Iran0
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden0
Normalization and the Erasure of Palestine: Ideology and Myth in Arab Drama Series0
Chinese Archaeology in the Middle East: Heritage, Transnational Connectivity, and the Belt and Road Initiative0
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen0
Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?0
US-Led Imperialism, Coups, and Post-Coup Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Brazil (2016–2022) and Egypt (2013–2024)0
IMF’s Social Protection between Rhetoric and Action: The Case of Egypt0
Fuel Smuggling in the West Bank (2018–2021): Palestinian Economic Agency under the Israeli System of Spatial Control0
Editor’s Note0
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)0
American Colony in Jerusalem: Rebuilding the Eight Palestinian Villages Buried by USA Independence Park0
A Light in the ‘Darkness’: Efforts of Chinese Print Media in Rebuilding Sino-Arab Connectivity During the Early Twentieth Century0
‘The Threat in the Hemisphere’: The Securitization Movement in the Triple Frontier and the Case of Hezbollah0
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution0
Salafi Women in Contemporary Egypt: The Politics of Integration0
Palestinian Music and the Potential for the Nation Branding of Palestine0
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations0
‘The High Art Unites Us’: Staging Unity Through Honoring in Cairo’s Literary Clubs0
Weaponizing Democratization: Street Battles and Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt0
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 Yo0
Afghanistan’s Political Settlement Puzzle: The Impact of the Breakdown of Afghan Political Parties to an Elite Polity System (2001–2021)0
The Defiant Ones: The Growing Alignment of Turkish-Qatari Interests Since 19850
US Sanctions and Cooperation among Targets: The Case of Cooperation between Iran and Venezuela0
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures0
Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia0
Diasporic Democratic Futures0
Palestine Studies, Knowledge Production, and the Struggle for Decolonisation0
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria0
Air Power, Controversy, and Colonial Continuities: UK Arms Sales and the War in Yemen0
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis0
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception0
In a Twist of Irony: Subverting Gendered and Racial Boundaries through Charged Humor in the Saudi TV Series Tāsh mā Tāsh [Fizz or Fizzle]0
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause0
Beyond Empire: Why the Soviet invasion (and withdrawal) of Afghanistan was different0
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization0
The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont: Reimagining the Middle East in World History0
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