Pipe Shop, 19th century
‘Tobacco and Pipe Shop’ (Marchand de Tumbeki à des Narghilehs), photographed by Pascal Sebah. Cairo, Egypt 1860-1880
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Pasha and his Harem, 1880
‘The Pasha and his Harem’ Port Said, Egypt 1880
La Fumeuse de Haschisch, 1900
‘The Hashish Smoker’ (La fumeuse de Haschisch) by Émile Bernard, signed ‘Le Caire’ (Cairo) 1900
Wanted Us To Try Hashish, 1940
“Smoking a hookah or bubble pipe at El Kantara on Suez Canal. The Arabs wanted us to try hashish but we declined.” Australian soldiers during WW2, Egypt 1940
Scene of the Desert Life, 1901
‘Scene of the Desert Life: Bedouin smoking a chibouk pipe resting beside his camel’, Postcard. Egypt 1901
Egyptian Smoke, 1904
‘Turkish lady smoking a waterpipe’, by the Arougheti Bros Suez. Egypt 1904
A Cafe for Hashish, 1905
‘A Cafe for Hashish’, H.K. Droit Reserve Postcard. Egypt 1905-1911
Burnt Offerings
“Say to them: These are the offerings by fire that you are to present to the LORD: As a regular burnt offering every day” — Numbers 28.3 Relief from Karnak Temple, Egypt Burnt Offerings In the bible a term used Read More …
Fumeur de Hachiche, 1900
“EGYPTE – fumeur de Hachiche” The Hashish Smoker, Egyptian postcard from around 1900
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled, 1904
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …