Rawi Hage

thumb|Hage in 2009 Rawi Hage (born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer and photographer. Quotes …I suspect that I can attribute my style to Arabic poetry…I permit myself to be overtly poetical in my writing. Maybe because I grew up in a culture that values poetry more than anything…But having said that, not all the writing is lyrical. It fluctuates to social realism sometimes, to different influences. On how his writings relate to Arabic poetry in “Rare Interview With Rawi Hage: ‘I’m Free To Be Difficult’” in Mideast Posts (2013 Nov 7) …I have to be in this frame of mind where I’m feeling pity for myself, and feeling pity for the world. Once I’ve attained the summit of this, then I have to sit down and write… On how he begins the writing process in “Rare Interview With Rawi Hage: ‘I’m Free To Be Difficult’” in Mideast Posts (2013 Nov 7) …When I recall the war, I recall it in images, not verbally or by text. That’s what really comes to me: fragmented images, much like photographs… On how memory plays into his works in “‘What I Fear Most is Homogeneity’: An Interview with Rawi Hage” in Hazlitt (2018 Sep 12) …The responsibility, the burden, is much heavier for us. If we don’t exercise our collective imagination—and not just documentation —we’ll always be at a certain disadvantage. I think what literature could provide us with is showing other possibilities. What I fear most is homogeneity. On the burden of racialized writers to represent their communities in “‘What I Fear Most is Homogeneity’: An Interview with Rawi Hage” in Hazlitt (2018 Sep 12) Category:Lebanese Canadians Category:Authors from Canada Category:Photographers from Canada Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Immigrants to Canada