This is a great article I just found from the Now Magazine in Toronto. Here’s hoping you enjoy this newbie’s little story about his first experience with the hookah.
Pipe Dreams
Sweet smell of shisha mixes with rush-hour traffic in Little Arabia
By GLENN WHEELER
The number 54 bus from Eglinton station rolls through sleepy single-family […]
The hookah has a long and storied history. Also known variously as a hubble-bubble, narghile, shisha, or water pipe, among other names, hookahs have been used for a mellow tobacco smoking experience in Asia and the Middle East for centuries. Coming to the Middle East from India, the hookah started out as a humble coconut […]
Hookas - The Ancient Art of the Middle East
Source: Antika, The Turkish Journal of Collectable Art, February 1986 Issue: 11
By: Günay Gercek
Throughout the ages, human beings have shown a special interest in intoxicating substances, and derived pleasure in delving into other worlds in their experiments with the new materials of this type which they have […]
Puffin at the Old Hubble Bubble
Source : Skylife
The hubble bubble was introduced to Turkey from either India or Persia and provided centuries of enjoyment for Turkish smokers. In Ottoman Istanbul the water pipe or hubble-bubble pipe became an objet d’art, with bottles of crystal, coloured glass or even silver, finials in the form of silver […]
