Social Smoke, the maker of the modern hookah shisha by the same name, has officially released their own line of custom paired and branded hookahs, manufactured by the popular Madgy Zidan.

The new pipe offering boasts a solid brass construction and Social Smoke branded glass pyramid base…

Smaller hookahs pose little question about how to clean them. They fit in the sink. Larger hookahs, on the other hand can seem pretty daunting. Trying to figure it out for yourself can take a lot of trial and error and can take a lot of time. Some fill a bath tub and clean them that way. Others take them outside and use a garden hose. But this isn’t necessary. Any hookah can be successfully cleaned in a kitchen sink, and with practice, can be done in less than one minute. Reviews here at HookahReport are always performed on a clean hookah, so we’re cleaning hookahs a lot.

LuxuryHookah.com, a new hookah manufacturing company out of Lebanon, launched their website only a few days ago, but has already seen some buzz in the online forums. I had the chance to speak to Chadi, the founder and owner of LuxuryHookah, about his new business and the what is being produced is definitely promising.

A hookah, originally referred to as a nargileh or a shisha, is a kind of waterpipe used for smoking wet tobacco called Moassel (or in the United States, Sisha—yeah, we got our words all mixed up over here). Getting an excellent smoke session from a hookah isn’t something most people can do without a little guidance. There are many caveats to a great session that take some time and practice to master. In this series of tutorials, we hope to help new smokers (and those who’ve been sojourning from the …