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The Coffee Ceremony

You will always be offered refreshments in an Arab home or office. Frequently, this will be Western style tea or coffee. However, you may also be offered a sweet, milkless tea or a light Arabic coffee flavoured with cardamom.

If Arabic coffee is on offer, you will be handed a coffee cup which should be held in your right hand, and when the coffee is poured from an elegant coffeepot, you should accept at least one cupful. It may be considered discourteous to refuse. Your cup will refilled at frequent intervals. If you do not want any more coffee, shake the cup slightly to show that you have had enough. Three cups are considered to be sufficient.

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