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Examples
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Jewish settlers and Palestinians who used to share a nargila a water-pipe at the water's edge now bicker over ownership of the spring's goldfish.
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The driver dropped us off in front of a house where half a dozen men were sitting in a circle of white plastic lawn chairs on the porch sharing an ornate nargila.
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Unsurprisingly, dessert is rare; most people head straight for coffee and, perhaps, a nargila (a tall water and tobacco pipe).
Matador Network 2010
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The driver dropped us off in front of a house where half a dozen men were sitting in a circle of white plastic lawn chairs on the porch sharing an ornate nargila.
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He would pop in to say hello, take one puff of the nargila, and be off to his next spot.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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The Jewish youths say he was blasting music and smoking a nargila in an act of ostentatious provocation.
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The hawkers handing out Turkish coffee to rally the flagging revellers, the café proprietors offering honeyed tobacco and nargila pipes when they had to sit down, and the hoteliers in whose rooms they collapsed, all sent their invoices to Ismail’s Coptic accountants at Cairo.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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The hawkers handing out Turkish coffee to rally the flagging revellers, the café proprietors offering honeyed tobacco and nargila pipes when they had to sit down, and the hoteliers in whose rooms they collapsed, all sent their invoices to Ismail’s Coptic accountants at Cairo.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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The hawkers handing out Turkish coffee to rally the flagging revellers, the café proprietors offering honeyed tobacco and nargila pipes when they had to sit down, and the hoteliers in whose rooms they collapsed, all sent their invoices to Ismail’s Coptic accountants at Cairo.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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We used to smoke nargila together in one of the courtyards. "
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