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Alex Rowell

Alex Rowell

Online Editor

Alex Rowell is Online Editor at New Lines magazine. Based in Lebanon, he is the author of “Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas” and the forthcoming “We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World.”

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The Wine Critics of Early Islam

The Wine Critics of Early Islam

The language used by early Arab poets to appraise wine shows striking parallels to the style of wine criticism we know today. Arab and Muslim poets writing hundreds of years ago used a vocabulary to evaluate wine that would only become current in the West in the late 20th century.

Alex Rowell