"The Hookah revolution
By Yousef Munayyer, Collegian columnist
April 26, 2005
You may have seen them on campus and you may even be smoking out of one right now. The hookah, also known as the argile, shisha, nargile, hubbly-bubbly and so on, has caught fire on this campus like a freshly lit coal.
Perhaps some of you have no idea what I'm talking about. The hookah is a water pipe used to smoke flavored tobacco (or other things, but what you do with your hookah is your business). Its origins are not quite clear. We can say with some degree of certainty that it originates somewhere between India and Iran, but exactly where is unsure. It is evident that the hookah met the western world through the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over much of the Arab lands in which the Hookah was popular."
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