The coffeehouse culture of Baghdad is a set of traditions and social behaviors in old, local, or traditional Baghdadi coffeehouses in Baghdad, Iraq. Ever since their inception in the 1500s, cafés have
Iraqi chai as served in Shabandar Café
Illustration of the Hassan Pasha Café in Baghdad from the 1840s
A street coffeehouse in Iraq during World War I
Nuri al-Said's portrait can be found in many Baghdadi coffeehouses even to this day.
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Al-Karkh or just Karkh is historically the name of the western half of Baghdad, Iraq, or alternatively, the western shore of the Tigris River as it ran through Baghdad. The eastern shore is known as a
Haifa Street, one of the main streets of al-Karkh.
The Buratha Mosque.
The shores of al-Karkh in 1917.
The Kadhimiya Tramway, 1917