On September 29th, 2013, Jadaliyya.com, one of the most popular online magazines on Middle East affairs, announced that the article "Why  Mubarak is Out," originally published on January 28th, 2011, and  written by Global Studies professor Paul Amar, ranked as the second-most read and cited article in the publication's three-year history.

Coincidentally, on October 1st, Project Muse announced that  the number-one most accessed article of the prestigious Journal of  Middle East Women's Studies was Paul Amar's "Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of Men in Crisis, Industries of Gender in  Revolution."