Coffee Seller, 1870

‘Coffee seller’ photographed by Abdullah Frères in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey 1870        

Scene of the Desert Life, 1901

‘Scene of the Desert Life: Bedouin smoking a chibouk pipe resting beside his camel’, Postcard.  Egypt 1901  

La Grande Odalisque, 1814

‘La Grande Odalisque’ by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1814         Chibouk pipe and incense box detail

Dervish Smoke Out, 1901

A group of Dervish gather at smoke out by Antoin Sevruguin. Tehran, Iran 1901    

Turkish Women, 1893

‘Türkische Frauen’ (Turkish Women) by Ferdinand Max Bredt 1893    

Crimean Smoke Break, 1855

British officers relax while smoking chibouk (Ottoman) smoking pipes during the Crimean War.  Crimea, 1855-1856    

The Syrian Horse, 1851

Turkish figures smoking a pipe standing beside a horse’ sketch by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873)     The Syrian Horse In 1851, a western author traveling through the middle east witnessed a peculiar surgery performed on a horse.  While Read More …