“It’s actually a celebration of the exalted status of being drunk.”
Curator Martina Rugiadi on a cup with a poem by Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi on wine from the second half of the tenth or eleventh century.
Poetic License
Martina Rugiadi
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Contributors
Martina Rugiadi
Curator
Curator
Photography by Anna-Marie Kellen
Poem recited by Abdullah Gouchani
Art Mentioned
Poet Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi
second half 10th–11th century
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