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5steps · 30min · newcomer · student
The coffeehouse
Poets, chess and politics: the East's first public salon.
El-Fishawy
Khan al-Khalili's café since 1771: mirrors, Mahfouz, arabesque.
Café Riche
Downtown Cairo 1908: officers, writers and revolution.
Paris
Coffee reaches Europe via Casablanca and Vienna.
Coffee in law
Coffee's fiqh debate in Mecca and Cairo.
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Overview
A path through the drink of the Arabs that conquered the world: from Yemen to Istanbul, to the coffee houses of Cairo, Paris and Casablanca, the houses of poets and statesmen.
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islam.museum contributors. “Coffee Culture”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/exhibits/path-coffee-culture/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.