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hookah shisha are known as water-pipes, or nargillato many Arabs (and
occasionally called hubbly-bubblyby US expatriates), the hookah pipe has
long been a curiosity to the uninitiated and a source of pleasure to centuries
of hookah pipe smokers.
Basically a pipe used for smoking, it has a long flexible tube whereby
the smoke is cooled by passing through water (the Arabic word "huggah"
means "bottle of a water pipe"). Though the hookah seems as
synonymous with Turkish culture as carpets, in actuality it is popular
throughout the middle-east.
Some people mistakenly believe that only hashish is smoked in hookahs.
To the contrary, it is more likely used at a sidewalk cafe to "drink
the smoke" of tobacco leaves, as one might sip coffee. Usually the
tobacco is dried whole leaf, soaked and crumbled, or canned, then mixed
with various herbs and flavors. This very moist mix is heaped into the
bowl and covered with a small charcoal fire. The whole leaf burns for
hours, making hookah-smoking a pastime conducive to leisurely philosophical
conversing. In Egypt, a piece of camel dung, lit on fire, is typically
resting on top of the tobacco. The dung smolders and slowly burns the
tobacco, just as a hot coal would.
The pipes themselves are popular collectables. They are commonly made
from silver and olive wood, and are sometimes quite large, standing two
feet tall with one or more hoses extending three feet. A real conversation
piece, as Lewis Carroll must have thought when he included a hookah-smoking
caterpillar in his well-loved children's book Alice in Wonderland.
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