| Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching R McCarthy Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Re-thinking Secularism in Post-Independence Tunisia R McCarthy The Journal of North African Studies 19 (5), 733-750, 2014 | 71 | 2014 |
| Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters A Roberts, MJ Willis, R McCarthy, T Garton Ash Oxford University Press, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech R McCarthy British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 42 (4), 447-464, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| The Politics of Consensus: Al-Nahda and the Stability of the Tunisian Transition R McCarthy Middle Eastern Studies 55 (2), 261-275, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement R McCarthy The Middle East Journal 72 (3), 365-384, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Salam's story R McCarthy The Guardian, 2003 | 25 | 2003 |
| Dangerous game of state-sponsored terror that threatens nuclear conflict R McCarthy The Guardian, 2002 | 15 | 2002 |
| Transgressive Protest after a Democratic Transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia R McCarthy Social Movement Studies 21 (6), 798-815, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
| Civilian cost of battle for Falluja emerges R McCarthy, P Beaumont The Observer, 2004 | 14 | 2004 |
| Sisters, mothers, martyrs R McCarthy The Guardian, 2006 | 13 | 2006 |
| Occupied Gaza like apartheid South Africa, says UN report R McCarthy The Guardian, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq R McCarthy Chatto & Windus, 2006 | 10* | 2006 |
| Inside the Gaza tunnels R McCarthy The Guardian, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures R McCarthy, I Williams The Guardian, 2007 | 9 | 2007 |
| ‘US Soldiers Started to Shoot Us, One by One.’ R McCarthy The Guardian, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
| Israel annexing East Jerusalem, says EU R McCarthy The Guardian, 2009 | 6 | 2009 |
| Wedding Party Massacre: Iraqis claim more than 40 killed in US helicopter attack R McCarthy The Guardian, 2004 | 6 | 2004 |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth E Addley, R McCarthy The Guardian, 2001 | 6 | 2001 |
| Rachel Corrie's family bring civil suit over human shield's death in Gaza R McCarthy The Guardian, 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
