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The Call

The Call

Hage, Rawi

Paperback

Series: Objects Talk Back

Letters & EssaysAfrican ArtChinese Art

Publisher Price: $10.00

ISBN10: 3035807957
ISBN13: 9783035807950
Publisher: Diaphanes
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.25 Width: 4.18 Depth: 6.55
Language: English
A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

Following one of the Turfan archaeological expeditions in the early 1900s, a fragment of a Manichaean text written in Uighur and Old Turkic found its way to the Asian Art Museum in Berlin. Originating from the Northern Silk Road region (now the Xinjiang Uighur Region in China), these loose leaves became a source of inspiration for Rawi Hage.

Hage writes, I was born near Byblos in Lebanon. The ancient city of Byblos is believed to be the place where the first alphabet was invented. Encountering this rare and precious manuscript, with its layered and multicolored words, Hage reflects on the movement, uprooting, displacement, and migration of both objects and people.

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