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Doctors call for fatwa on smoking
A group of British Muslim doctors has called on Islamic leaders to issue religious rulings against smoking as part of efforts to stamp out the habit. The Australian reports.
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Saudi ambassador serves alcohol
The Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in Ankara, El Husseini broke with the Islamic laws of his country and served his guests alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic drinks were served at a welcome dinner held by El...
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Smoking in the Ottoman Middle East (article)
James Grehan, “Smoking and ‘Early Modern’ Sociability: The Great Tobacco Debate in the Ottoman Middle East (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries),” American Historical Review 111/5 (Dec. 2006), 1352-77....
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Wolf Wissotzky and tea in tsarist Russia, Palestine, and Israel
Klonimus Wolf Wissotzky (1824-1904) acquired a reputation as the “king of Russian tea” after he established the Wissotzky Tea company in 1849. In 1936, Wissotzky Tea became the first tea company in...
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Palestine’s Oktoberfest
The Christian founded Palestinian Oktoberfest, as reported here, is now able to include Moslems with its new non-alcoholic beer reported here . Posted in Beer, Drinking Spaces, Israel, Palestine
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Narcotics Trafficking in the Interwar Middle East, c. 1900-1950
Cyrus Schayegh, “The Many Worlds of ʕAbud Yasin; or, What Narcotics Trafficking in the Interwar Middle East Can Tell Us About Territorialization,” American Historical Review 116, no. 2 (April 2011):...
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