Unidentified photographer
n.d.
[A young woman with a hookah]

Real photo postcard
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Published in Malek Alloula, 1986, The Colonial Harem, (University of Minnesota Press)
 
Alloula writes about women and the hookah:
”The simple evocation of the hookah, associated with hashish, suffices to give life to a world of dreamy feminine presences, in various states of self-abandonment and lasciviousness, welcoming and without reserve. It implies general stupefaction of the sense that foreshadows their unbridled release. The women who smoke the hookah are no longer of this, the observable, world: they move in the ethereal space of the haram.”
 
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