The divination ritual of reading a coffee cup goes back hundreds and even thousands of years. Despite the uncertainty behind its origin and how it began, Arabs have been practicing this ritual since ancient times, and it's one of the traditions that most expresses Arab identity and is usually ever-present in evening coffee sessions among women in particular, with older women usually doing the divination. When it comes to how the ritual must be performed, there are a few rules. The coffee itself needs to be Arabic or Turkish and needs to be poured into cups with white interiors that come with saucers. Then the saucer must be placed on top of the cup after finishing the drink, sloshing the covered remains thrice clockwise, then inverting the cup onto the saucer and letting the coffee sediments settle for a few minutes. Amal Al-Agroobi implements the ritual as the base of her 9-minutes short,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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