Word: sheesha
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...Freshman year we used to sit outside John Harvard and smoke sheesha,” Eltayeb said, using another term for hookah. “That’s how a lot of people got to know each other...
...officials from the government's judicial branch squared off in a soccer game against employees of the executive branch. It was the kind of scene you almost never see on the evening news: teenagers from the neighborhood playing freely while men at a nearby outdoor caf talked politics over sheesha and sweet amber-colored Iraqi tea. Some played barefoot; those with shoes traded them off when they substituted out. The center forward for the executive branch, a close adviser to al-Maliki, was the only one wearing cleats...
...Erol of Arabia” dreams of racing across the desert on a black Arabian horse, scimitar in hand, screaming, wearing a kafiyya, then arriving in Cairo, making a cameo at a local protest, with bullhorn in my other hand, burning a few flags and finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse, but have been on a stationary, probably sedated camel, with camera in hand. I have...
...other words, Cairo has definitely not been “keeping it real.” It is a place that is torturous to pin down, where you can buy your McArabia sandwich from McDonald’s, and enjoy it next door at a coffeehouse, with its sheesha pipes bubbling and its backgammon boards rattling...
This spring, after three months abstinence, the sheesha brought back strong memories of his explorations of Cairo. It was easy to sit with him in the back-yard, stirring tea, handing back and forth the lay, basking in a stream of Arabic names and stories. Every night until the tobacco ran out, Mark would be in the backyard, arranging glowing embers with the masha' (a pair of small brass tongs), cupping his hands and blowing softly on the coals...