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Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jessica Breakey
Drake University
2
Mohammed Nijim
Carleton University
3
Sophie Alkhaled
Lancaster University
4
Arwa Al‐Twal
American University of Madaba
5
Andrea Purdeková
University of Bath
6
Ahmet Safa Hüdaverdi
Unknown
7
Sharmila Devi
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology
8
Tariq Dana
Birzeit University
9
Fergus O’Leary Simpson
University of Antwerp
10
Behzad Borhan
McGill University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Projected global rise in breast cancer incidence and mortality by 2050
The Lancet Oncology|2025
24 cit.
2
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project
Middle East Critique|2024
20 cit.
3
Ecological and social justice should proceed hand-in-hand in conservation
Biological Conservation|2024
19 cit.
4
Gazacide: Palestinians From Refugeehood to Ontological Obliteration
Critical Sociology|2024
15 cit.
5
An investigation of the role of Wasta social capital in enhancing employee loyalty and innovation in organizations
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship|2024
14 cit.
6
Rising costs of cancer medicines
The Lancet Oncology|2024
14 cit.
7
Towards understanding the failure of new public management in the MENA region: Are informal networks to blame?
Thunderbird International Business Review|2024
13 cit.
8
First fatality from Alaskapox virus
The Lancet Infectious Diseases|2024
10 cit.
9
Iranian medic suicides spark criticism of working conditions
The Lancet|2024
8 cit.
10
Bridging power and fairness: unravelling the impact of informal networks on organisational justice in the ARAB region
Employee Relations|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Dorothy Ohl
George Washington University
2
Susan Benesch
Harvard University Press
3
Maissam Nimer
Sabancı Üniversitesi
4
Michael Koziol
University of Engineering & Management
5
Alexei Tsinovoi
Aarhus University
6
David Mwambari
KU Leuven
7
Phyu Phyu Thi
Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit
8
Matthew J. Walton
University of Washington
9
Mahsa Rouhi
International Institute for Strategic Studies
10
Marina Lostal
University of Essex

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Fatal misconceptions: colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Critical African Studies|2022
24 cit.
2
Friction-In-Design Regulation as 21St Century Time, Place and Manner Restriction
SSRN Electronic Journal|2022
13 cit.
3
Woman, Life, Freedom in Iran
Survival|2022
12 cit.
4
The impact of open access on knowledge production, consumption and dissemination in Kenya’s higher education system
Third World Quarterly|2022
10 cit.
5
Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis
Third World Quarterly|2023
9 cit.
6
Bodily Scars as Lived Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Body & Society|2023
9 cit.
7
Knowledge production in refugee studies from the South: Theorization of refugee labour in the literature on Turkey
Migration Studies|2024
7 cit.
8
Education and Language Policies toward Syrians in the Turkish State: Incorporation of Former Imperial Subjects into the Neo-Ottomanist Political Regime
Comparative Education Review|2023
5 cit.
9
In Memory of Peacekeepers: Belgian Blue Helmets and Belgian Politics
International Peacekeeping|2022
4 cit.
10
The Return of the Airship: LTA Research's Pathfinder 1 will begin test flights in 2023
IEEE Spectrum|2023
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Mary Douglas
Oldham Council
2
Mark R. Lepper
Stanford University
3
Lila Abu‐Lughod
Columbia University
4
Mahmood Mamdani
Columbia University
5
Scott Straus
University of California, Berkeley
6
Benjamin A. Tabak
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
7
Efraim Karsh
Tel Aviv University
8
Donald P. Green
Columbia University
9
Kamel Mellahi
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
10
Sarah Warshauer Freedman
University of California, Berkeley

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|1967
5.8k cit.
2
Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1979
4.4k cit.
3
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism.
The American Historical Review|1997
3.3k cit.
4
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.
Man|1967
2.8k cit.
5
When choice is demotivating: Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|2000
2.8k cit.
6
How Institutions Think.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1988
2.7k cit.
7
When choice is demotivating: Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|2000
2.6k cit.
8
Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1973
2.4k cit.
9
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
American Anthropologist|2002
2.3k cit.
10
the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women
American Ethnologist|1990
2.3k cit.

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