Commentary on hookahs, smoke rings, and The Dream

…a follow up on the Strategy of Tarneeb. I hope everyone enjoyed learning about Tarneeb.  Now here are a few tips to beat your competition: 1) The bidding process is the most important part of most sets in Tarneeb.  Its important to understand what your partner is communicating during the bidding process.  If you bid [...]

…enjoy the Middle East’s favorite card game at your favorite shisha cafe. Tarneeb (or “Trump” in Arabic) is a trump style card game similar to Eucre (but a bit more fun and strategic) played throughout the Middle East.  Its a great game to share with 3 friends while passing the time away smoking a hookah. [...]

…an update from the Land of Shisha. A lot of memories flooded back to me when I landed at Terminal 1 at Cairo International Airport.  Had it really been 6 years since my last pilgrimage to the place that later inspired the original HoboHookah?  Would I even recognize this dynamic and crazy city and this [...]

…smoking hookah in one of the gems in the Middle East. If you are talking “places to smoke hookah” than you have to talk about Egypt.  This is the place that has truly embraced the hookah culture to a point that it could rival any bar hop or coffee shop following here in the States. [...]

…Smoking hookah in Jerusalem. “I was scheduled to go to Israel in early May along with a group of forty kids. For the months building up to the trips, my friends that had been to the holy land before told me it was crazy. They had everything. Bars, girls, and even hookahs graced the streets [...]