https://rjfahuinib.org/index.php/diwan <p dir="ltr"><em>Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab</em> is an internationally peer-reviewed journal publishing original research across the full spectrum of Arabic linguistics, literary studies, and translation. Published by the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, State Islamic University Imam Bonjol Padang, in partnership with the Association of Researchers on Arabic Language and Literature "Lisaniya Adabiya," the journal particularly welcomes research that reads Arabic language and literature as a site where power is exercised, identity is negotiated, resistance finds voice, and linguistic-cultural forms are transformed.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Diwan</em> proceeds from the premise that Arabic language and literature are frequently implicated in the production of social meaning — sustaining authority, defining subjects and communities, giving voice to those rendered silent, or reconfiguring linguistic and cultural forms in response to changing contexts. <em>Diwan</em> particularly welcomes submissions that engage this premise, while remaining open to any research — linguistic or literary, qualitative or quantitative — that offers a clear interpretive, theoretical, or methodological contribution to the field.</p> <p dir="ltr">By choosing <em>Diwan</em>, authors join a community of inquiry spanning Arabic linguistics, literary studies, and translation, with particular emphasis on scholarship that reads Arabic language and literature as sites of power, identity, resistance, and transformation. Whether an established scholar, an early-career researcher, or a graduate student, contributors are invited to advance a tradition of rigorous, theoretically grounded scholarship in the field. <em>Diwan</em> thereby seeks its place among journals that shape how the Arabic-speaking world is studied, both within the region and across the wider scholarly community.</p> Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Arab Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Imam Bonjol Padang en-US Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab 2339-2088 https://rjfahuinib.org/index.php/diwan/article/view/2658 <p>Travel writing has traditionally been studied through non-fictional texts, leaving a significant gap in understanding how fictional narratives can also function as a medium of travel representation. This study responds to that gap by examining the Arabic short fiction <em>Nīqūsiyā</em> as a work of travel writing, applying Carl Thompson's travel-writing framework, which emphasizes reporting the world, revealing the self, and representing the other. The study addresses how fictional narratives construct travel experiences and represent foreign space, exilic identity, and alterity within the framework of travel writing. Using a qualitative interpretive method and textual analysis, this research analyzes narrative strategies, empirical details, and comparative representation. The data in this study consist of words, phrases, and sentences from the short story. At the same time, data were collected through repeated close readings of the text, followed by systematic documentation of segments representing the travel narrative. The findings show that the world is reported through administrative, geographical, and sensory details that create a sense of factuality while reflecting the narrator's subjective framing of reality. By revealing the self, the journey serves as a medium for emotional and existential transformation, in which memory and exile reshape the narrator's self-awareness and identity. Meanwhile, the other is represented through contrasts between the foreign space and the narrator's space of origin, showing that alterity is relationally constructed through cultural memory and personal experience. This study implies that in fictional travel writing, exilic identity and alterity are relationally constructed through the interplay of memory, space, and subjective experience.</p> Shinta Fitria Utami Nety Novita Hariyani Habil Abyad Hefi Al Hifdhi Copyright (c) 2026 Shinta Fitria Utami, Nety Novita Hariyani, Habil Abyad, Hefi Al Hifdhi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2026-09-19 2026-09-19 18 2 175 192 10.15548/diwan.v18i2.2658 https://rjfahuinib.org/index.php/diwan/article/view/2807 <p>Although Nawal El Sa’dawi's novels have been extensively studied, the bodily and affective mechanisms of her short fiction remain largely unexamined. This gap matters because bodily shame, fear, and obedience often naturalize patriarchal authority more effectively than explicit coercion. This study closes that gap by analyzing how patriarchal morality, religious anxiety, class hierarchy, and racialized exclusion make women's bodies experience shame, sin, fear, obedience, and alienation in three short stories from Sa’dawi's <em>Adab am Qillat Al-Adab</em>, read through Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection. The study employs a qualitative, psychoanalytic, literary-critical design, with data drawn from close reading and cross-story comparison of bodily signs. The findings show three connected patterns. <em>First</em>, women's speech about the body, money, sex, and the womb is treated as a threat to propriety in <em>Adab am Qillat Al-Adab</em>. <em>Second</em>, <em>Hālat Fatāh min Daftar Aḥwāl 'Iyādatī</em> turns piety, fatherly authority, and public gaze into bodily fear. <em>Third</em>, <em>Laysa Lahā Makān fī al-Jannah</em> presents the poor black female body as obedient, hungry, overworked, and excluded even from imagined paradise. Across the three stories, power becomes lived through bodily affect. These findings indicate that abjection in Sa’dawi's short fiction is not only a private feeling of disgust or guilt but a social process that converts women's bodies into morally suspect, economically valued, racially marked, and symbolically expelled bodies. The study contributes to Arab feminist literary criticism by showing how Sa’dawi transforms bodily shame into a critique of power, extending her literary legacy well beyond the novel form itself.</p> Nur Huda Fathul Mufid Ulya Copyright (c) 2026 Nur Huda, Fathul Mufid, Ulya https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2026-09-21 2026-09-21 18 2 193 210 10.15548/diwan.v18i2.2807