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Dr Nina S. Studer
@drninastuder
Ph.D. Zürich/Oxford. Historian and lecturer. Focusing on the colonial Maghreb: history of medicine and psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies.
Nov 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
French travellers in the 19th c. were often disappointed by the coffeehouses they encountered in North Africa. They expected the Orientalist fantasies they had grown accustomed to (in paintings & novels) & were shocked when the reality differed from that. #HistoryOfCoffee [1/4] Jules Leclercq described them in an 1881 account about his journey through Morocco & Algeria as nothing but "dirty huts", adding that the "cafés of Tangier have nothing that corresponds with the brilliant [preconceived] ideas that we have of Oriental cafés" #Orientalism [2/4]