What's that for?

This is great - My Boss went to the UAE for business last week and brought back presents for my coworkers and me, a kind gesture, may I add. Each of us got a small tin of scented Arabic herbs and a clay stand to put them in to burn like incense. I wasn't the only one who thought it a strange shape as it is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top; one of my coworkers consulted another who speaks Arabic and she said that the little stand is not a stand for nice smelling potpourri at all but in fact is used to smoke hookahs!