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

Article	Citations
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	33
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	26
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	17
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	16
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	14
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	12
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	12
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	11
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	11
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	10
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	10
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	9
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	9
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	8
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	8
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	8
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	8
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	8
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	7
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	7
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	6
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	6
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	6
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	6
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	6

Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	6
Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	6
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	5
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	5
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	5
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	5
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	5
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	5
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza	5
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	4
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	4
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	4
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	4
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	4
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	4
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	4
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	4
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	4
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	3
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	3
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	3
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	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
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	3
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
All Roads Lead to Beijing? Global Value Chains and China’s ‘Global South Diplomacy’ towards the Arab Countries	3
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	3
Tell China’s Story Well : China and the Middle East	2
Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects	2
Remix and the Afterlife of Digital Archives: Reconstructing History and Identity in Palestine Remix	2
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	2
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	2
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	2
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	2
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	2
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	2
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	2

Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	2
The Many Forms of Iran’s Foreign Policy Seen Through Its Social Logics	2
The Impossible Factory: Dependency and Elimination in Israel’s Settler-Colonial Economy (1956–1960)	2
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	2
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
Iraq, Regime Change, and the Reconstruction of the Security Field: the Rebirth of Impunity in a Disaggregated State	2
Editor’s Note	2
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	2
Iraq’s Rhizomatic State and the Politics of Impunity	2
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	2
The US-China Strategic Competition in the GCC Countries: A Case of ‘New Infrastructure Statecraft’	1
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	1
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide	1
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen	1
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project	1
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	1
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	1
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	1
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	1
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	1
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures	1
The Sanctions Must Go On: The Transnational Investment Bloc Support for the Iran Sanctions	1
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	1
The Iraqi Thawrat Tishrīn as a Revolutionary Process	1
Syrian Debates	1
Euro-American Middle East Studies: An Intellectual Apparatus of Empire	1
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	1
Correction	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialism	1
On the Coloniality of Solidarity: Iran, Imperialist Aggression, and the Western Left’s Blind Spot	1
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution	1
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	1
Erasing the Past: Domicide and Settler Colonialism in Susiya and Sheikh Jarrah	1
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	1
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	1
How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order	1
The Class Politics of the Rentier State: Rentierism as a Strategy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	1
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	1
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	1
The Decolonization of Minds	1
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE	1
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	1
Introduction: The Impunity Politics of Contested Security in Iraq	1
The Agency of People Seeking Asylum in Aberdeen: The Micro-Level Impact of Anti-Immigration Policies	1
From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany	1
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	1
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	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
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Prioritized Intermediate Zone: China’s New Third Worldism in the Middle East	1
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	1
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms	1
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	1
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	1
Correction	1
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	1