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Middle Eastern Culture & Religion Issues
Published by Universitas Gadjah Mada
ISSN : 29640830     EISSN : 29622476     DOI : https://doi.org/10.22146/mecri
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Education, Social,
Religion Humanities Education Environmental Science Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences
Middle Eastern Culture & Religion Issues (MECRI) is a journal published by the Department of Intercultural Study, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. MECRI publishes scientific articles in the form of research results and literature reviews with the Middle East regions as the main object of study, viewed from social, political, cultural, literary, language and Islamic perspectives.
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Articles 53 Documents
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The Construction of Women in the Short Stories Ma‘nā Al-Ḥubbi and Ḥubbun bi Lā Naslin by ‘Abbās Ḥāfiż: A Feminist Study Nurin Amirotul Chusna; Nadya Syafira Putri
Middle Eastern Culture & Religion Issues Vol 5 No 1 (2026): July 2026 Edition
Publisher : Middle Eastern Studies Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/mecri.v5i1.24108

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This study aims to examine how Egyptian women are constructed in the short stories Ma‘nā al-Ḥubbi and Ḥubbun bi Lā Naslin by ‘Abbās Ḥāfiẓ througt Rosi Braidotti’s concepts of mother, monster, and machine. The research employs a qualitative method with a descriptive-analytical approach. The findings reveal that women’s identities are closely tied to domesticity, reproduction, and moral expectations within patriarchal society. First, women are constructed as mothers through expectations related to domestic skills, caregiving, and maternal affection. Their social value is associated with their ability to serve husbands, manage the household, and nurture children, even in the absence of biological motherhood. Second, women are constructed as monsters when they deviate from patriarchal norms. Female characters who reject reproductive expectations, fail to fulfill domestic roles, or violate standards of chastity are portrayed as abnormal and socially stigmatized. Third, women are constructed as machines because their existence is primarily valued through reproductive function. Women’s bodies are treated as instruments regulated by social and cultural systems concerned with childbirth, sexuality, and family continuity. Consequently, infertility or the inability to reproduce reduces women’s social value and limits their agency within marriage and family structures. Overall, the short stories reflect how patriarchal culture confines women within rigid biological and domestic roles.
Emotional Representation and Moral Framing of Indonesia’s Defeat in Al-Jazeera Arabic News: A Faircloughian Critical Discourse Analysis Muhammad Fadhlurrahman Zakaria; Cahya Buana; Umi Kulsum
Middle Eastern Culture & Religion Issues Vol 5 No 1 (2026): July 2026 Edition
Publisher : Middle Eastern Studies Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/mecri.v5i1.25954

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This study examines how an Al-Jazeera Arabic news text constructs Indonesia’s defeat to Iraq in the fourth qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup through patterns of emotional representation and moral framing. The study aims to identify how linguistic choices and discursive strategies shape the representation of Indonesian players’ post-match conduct. This research employs a qualitative descriptive approach and is designed as a single-text critical case study. The data consists of selected excerpts from one Al-Jazeera Arabic online news article reporting the incident. The analysis was conducted through close reading using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis framework, encompassing text analysis, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. The findings indicate that the report constructs the Indonesian national team through evaluative lexical choices, plural categorization, causality, and imperative headline structure that foreground emotional instability, indiscipline, and collective attribution. Rather than functioning solely as neutral sports reporting, the text may be interpreted as directing readers toward a moral evaluation of the team’s conduct. This study contributes specifically to the discussion of Arab media representation of non-Arab actors in the context of sport, while also extending the application of Critical Discourse Analysis to contemporary sports journalism.
Constructing Islamic Moderation in Arabic Digital Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Al-Azhar’s Platform X Han-Han Ulumudin Ismail
Middle Eastern Culture & Religion Issues Vol 5 No 1 (2026): July 2026 Edition
Publisher : Middle Eastern Studies Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/mecri.v5i1.29261

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This paper focuses on the analysis of the linguistics of Islamic moderation in Al-Azhar's official digital discourse in Arabic and how this construction functions as a support for the religious authority of Al-Azhar in the contemporary mediated environment. The current study adopted a qualitative design based on the socio-cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Arabic micro-linguistic analysis, such that it analysed thirty tweets posted between 2019 and 2025 on Al-Azhar's verified Platform X account. The results indicate that the modulation happens through recurrent lexical patterns, nominal sentence structure (jumlah ismiyyah), masdar nominalization, definiteness marking by the prefix al-, performative institutional verb sequencing, lexical oppositions and patterned embedding of the citation of the Qur’anic text and Hadiths. There are also linguistic mechanisms which reinforce moderation as an institutional normative Islamic perspective and which highlight Al-Azhar's institutional authority in formal Arabic digital communication. The study reveals that Arabic digital religious discourse is a patterned institutional positioning that relies on grammatical form, scriptural intertextuality, and institutional register as mechanisms of authority. What is original about it is the unique combination of socio-cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with a close Arabic micro-grammatical analysis of the original source texts, providing a language-centred framework that brings together the fields of study on Islamic moderation, digital religion and discourse analysis.

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