OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Middle East Critique is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices	21
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	12
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	9
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	8
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	8
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	7
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	7
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	6
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	6
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	6
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	5
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	5
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	5
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	5
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	4
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	4
Impact of 1962-68 North Yemen War on Cold War Balance of Power	4
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	4
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	4
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	4
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	4
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	3
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	3
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	3

10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism	3
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	3
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	3
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	3
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	3
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	3
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	3
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	3
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	2
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	2
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	2
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	2
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	2
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	2
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	2
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	2
Editor’s Note	2
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	2
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	2