Alex Rowell

Alex Rowell is the author of "We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World" (2023), a New York Times "Editors' Choice" described as "essential reading" by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Rowell's first book, "Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas," was named among the best of 2018 by the London Evening Standard. He contributed a chapter to "Tears of Bacchus: A History of Wine in the Arab World." Based between the UK and Lebanon, he has written for the BBC, The Washington Post, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, and is an editor at New Lines magazine. On X and Instagram: @alexjrowell.