Damascus has busy nightlife. Coffeehouses offer Arabic coffee, tea and  nargileh (water pipes). Card games, tables (backgammon variants), and chess are activities frequented in cafés. These coffeehouses have had in the past an international reputation, as indicated by Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem, ''Cafes in Damascus'', of 1836. Current movies can be seen at Cinema City which was previously known as Cinema Dimashq.