| Migrant labor in the Persian Gulf M Kamrava, Z Babar Columbia University Press, 2012 | 122 | 2012 |
| The cost of belonging: citizenship construction in the state of Qatar ZR Babar The Middle East Journal 68 (3), 403-420, 2014 | 111 | 2014 |
| Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar Z Babar, M Ewers, N Khattab Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45 (9), 1553-1570, 2019 | 55 | 2019 |
| Food Security in the Middle East ZBS Mirgani Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014 | 50* | 2014 |
| Situating labor migration in the Persian Gulf M Kamrava, Z Babar Migrant labor in the Persian Gulf, 1-20, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Circular migration and the Gulf States Z Babar, A Gardner Impact of circular migration on human, political and civil rights: A global …, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
| Free mobility within the gulf cooperation council Z Babar CIRS Occasional Papers, 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Population, power, and distributional politics in Qatar Z Babar Journal of Arabian Studies 5 (2), 138-155, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
| Fragile politics: weak states in the greater Middle East M Kamrava, C Schmitz, S Phillips, DE Esser, F Wehrey, S Mikaelian, ... | 34 | 2014 |
| Skilled migration to emerging economies: The global competition for talent beyond the West MC Ewers, N Khattab, Z Babar, M Madeeha Globalizations 19 (2), 268-284, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| Arab migrant communities in the GCC Z Babar Oxford University Press, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| The 2022 World Cup and migrants' rights in Qatar: Racialised labour hierarchies and the influence of racial capitalism Z Babar, N Vora The Political Quarterly 93 (3), 498-507, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| Gender and mobility: Qatar's highly skilled female migrants in context N Khattab, Z Babar, M Ewers, M Shaath Migration and Development 9 (3), 369-389, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Georgetown University PM Kamrava, Z Babar Center for International and Regional Studies, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| The “Enemy Within” Citizenship-Stripping in the Post–Arab Spring GCC Z Babar Middle East Journal 71 (4), 525-543, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Understanding labour migration policies in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries ZR Babar Asianization of migrant workers in the Gulf countries, 37-53, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| The “humane economy”: Migrant labour and Islam in Qatar and the UAE Z Babar Sociology of Islam 5 (2-3), 200-223, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Migration policy and governance in the GCC: A regional perspective Z Babar Labor mobility: An enabler for sustainable development, 121-142, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Food security and food sovereignty in the Middle East M Kamrava, Z Babar, E Woertz, J Harrigan, R Bush, H Salami, ... | 12 | 2012 |
| Improving the evidence on health inequities in migrant construction workers preparing for big sporting events AD Flouris, Z Babar, LG Ioannou, KH Onarheim, KH Phua, S Hargreaves BMJ 374, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
