Mokhtar Alkhanshali is a coffee historian, entrepreneur, and innovator. After several years as a community organizer working on civil rights issues affecting immigrant communities, Mokhtar began focusing on his family’s roots as coffee farmers in Yemen. Seeking to reverse Yemen’s nearly lost art of coffee cultivation, he started his own coffee company, Port of Mokha. His work has been described as the spark that ignited the Yemeni coffee revolution. Mokhtar’s life and journey was immortalized in Dave Eggers’s book, The Monk of Mokha. In this episode, he talks to Abdul-Rehman about this journey, which continues ten years on.

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