The Monk of Mocha

Mokhtor is one of the Yemeni -American.Her girlfriend’s name is Miriram.He has brother whose name is Walled.He is younger that mokhtor.He studies in UC university in Berkeley.

Mokhtor is collecting money for Somolian during their famine.But while he was moving from one place to other place to give money to the Sayh who stays in Santa Clara ( 2012) , money was stolen also his new laptop. He needs to pay money for its cost to the shop.He borrow money from Walled to buy that laptop but now he doesn’t have anything.

He needs to pay the donation money and also his brothers money.So he owned money from his friend Omar but anyway he must pay him back too.That’s why he found a job at the infinity center as a doorman .He worked there hourly 18 $.

Mohktor was 8 years old when he came to Sanfransisco .First thing that He saw was a man who was defecating on the Mercedes.Their new place was Tenderloin was the illegal city .Many of the illegal works happen in this city.Most of the immigrant came this city from Vietnam, Cambodia,middle east because it was cheap city.These people started their job as janitors.

He was living in the most criminal city in the America.When he was middle school, he started to road cutting.But his teacher believed that he was a good boy because he reads a lot.He doesn’t have any private room for himself but he tried to make something special to himself.He borrowed or stole books to form his own library.His favorite books were Harry Potter, the chronicles of narnia

He carved some place for his books in the storage room.Now he had a special library for himself.

He grew after that his family realized that he will be a stray soonSo they sent him to Yemeni to his father’s village.He stayed at there but later on he got bored because he couldn’t find any enjoyable thing like in California.He came back to stay in the one room to enjoy his life .

He mentioned about White House to became one of the member to warn USA about Middle East .

He mentioned about his friends , one of them want olive campany, one of them ( imam’s son) went to the Umrah after returning to his home , he had been shot from his head.No body knows who did it.

One friend who wants to build a olive company were taking peace and social lessons in his college class but noting about olive trading.

Hills brother was the first company to bring Arabian coffee to USA.Their problem was freshness of the coffee beans but they found a solution which was the vacuum packinging.It looks simple but let the people level up their trades .Simple but great solution.

The origin of coffee is Ethiyopia and Yemen.

It is so funny that Khaldi the Ethiopian shepherd let his sheep to gaze but at night he realized that his sheep were wake and they were jumping around.He thought that they were possessed but later on he understood that they ate coffee beans and he tried too .He felt the same affection on him as well.And he found the cofee beans.

Coffee was born in Arabia.It has two kinds robusta and arabica.Arabica is the tastiest one.

According to the legend, cofee first was brewed in City of Mocha( port city of Yemen) by one of the sufi whose name was called Ali ibn I omar shadhilli.

Coffee was giving ecstasy to them during their religious ceremonies.Sufi men were travellers.They took coffee beand all around the world such us Africa, Middle East ,Turkey too.

Turkish people called it kahve.Shadhilli was the monk of mocha so cofee departured from Mocha to other countries.

First coffee houses were called kahvehane which was used for lively music ,discussions,

But later on coffee shops had been seen that the place which were used for some illegal activities such as prostitution, gambling and criticism of the government.Governers decided to ban them.

For trade he made a search of SWOT about Yemeni cofeee.

S-Strength

W-Weakness

O-Opportunities

T-Threat

What are the threat while he starts to bring coffee fromYemen to USA?

-Tribeal violence

-Al qaidah

-pirates in Red sea

-corrupted government

-Andrew Nicholson?

Who is he?

He is American and moved to Yemen for coffee business.He is from Louisiana.

Giuliano is Mokhtor’ s friend who converted to Islam and became Muslim so that their ways crossed with each other.He supports him for coffee trade.He comes from Italian Christian family and his parents divorced.At the age of 15 , he found the book Islam for dummies and decided to convert.Actually he triggered by the people who assumed him that he is Arabic and Muslim as well.

Autodidact-Learn things by themselves.

Mokhtor and Giuliano are autodidact.When they are together , they talk about books and food.

While they are eating their food , they see the dry prunes and search about where dry prune come from.So that they taught history, philosophy to each other .

Giuliano fell in love with Pakistani-American girl .

Baba Budan was one of the Muslim guy who wanted to umrah in Mecca , he visited the Yemen and saw the coffee.He told them to give some seedlings but yemeniis didn’t accept .They said you can buy roasted coffee beans but not seddling or cherries.He stole the 7 cherries put inside his belly and wrapped them with his robe.When he came to the India , he planted them .( 1500s)Now India is the 6th cofee exporter in the world.Indians call him as a saint.

When the dates show 16 December 1773 , hundreds of American Native clothing colonists poured the all tea to the sea in Boston harbour.It came from India -British company to the harbor.And because of that reason coffee is the most famous drink in the USA.

Taxes were difficult for British colonist countries.

Americans brought the coffee from Dutch .

After WW1 and world war 2 , coffee was the most important trade in USA.

2014, 25 percent of coffee is consumed by the USA.

Cherries mostly grow in the Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda,Ethiopia,Colombia, Hawaii,Kenya,Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica.

Ghassan’s Advice

Do not open the coffee shop , it doesn’t bring so much profit but bring coffee beans , roast and sell them.

Do not use any Islamic name.You are selling Yemenni coffee beans and Islamic Coffee beans.

Who is the Monk of the Mokha?

Are you?

You are activist or businessman?Think about real bussiness.

Blue Bottle Coffee House

During the Height of Ottoman Empire , ottomons tried to sieged the Vienna.Ottomons were powerful but Viennnes had little hope that they could stop the siege.They had only one option.They chose one of Pole from their rank as repserenter to send news to Poles.They chose Franz George Kollishky.They let them to wear Turkish army clothes and sent news for help to the Poles.

Franz knew Arabic and Turkish because he spent time in Arabic world.

Polish army troops came from back , Vienna Army troops from the front and siege was failed for Ottomon.They left their belongings behind , 25000 tents, 5000 camels, 500 bags of coffee beans.

Polish army didn’t know about coffee , they thought that these for camels to eat .But Franz knew them.As a gift 500 bags of coffee beans were given to the Franz.He opened his first coffee shop in Europe , was named Blue Bottle.He brewed the coffee like Istanbul style.

It’s taste was so bitter for Viennese so he added honey and cream at the top.

And he invented first Viennese coffee.

After 320 years in California, James Freeman , wanted everybody taste actual coffee so he brewed it drip by drip in front of customers.

His shops names was Blue bottle too.Now it’s shop is in Oakland James London square,Every Sunday it is open for cupping and customers can taste various brewed coffee .(San Francisco-California)

I found blue bottle coffee in Sandiego)

3725 Paseo Pl #1060, San Diego, CA 92130

How to taste coffee in blue bottle?

Steps

1-One teaspoon full of brewed coffee and slurp it.Because when it is oxgenated, it’s full taste comes to the mouth.

2-Swish coffee in your mouth .

3-Then spit it out.

Processing of Cofee

It is painful process.Many people work on that but they are underpaid.

Especially the women work to choose the best coffee beans after drying.

Firstly all coffee beans are picked by hand one by one.Just only the red ones , not green , yellow or riped ones.

After that they are put in the pulp machine.Added some water in them and left to the fermentation around 3-4 days.

After that washed and dried.

The vision of Mokhtor’ s plan

To empower the Farmers with the knowledge and tools to bring positive changes in quality of their coffee and lives.

In Ethiyopia , coffee workers Paris 1$ daily. They were in poor conditions.

Tadessa Meskela is Ethiyophian coffee trader, he tried to improve conditions for his cofffee workers.Such as he built hospital and schools for them.

Coffee Experts

There are 2 graders .Q and R.

Q grader for Arabica coffee

R grader for robusta

( Extra Note:They are a person certified by the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) as capable of analyzing Arabica coffee through smell and taste – something normally called “cupping”. (For Robusta coffee, you'd want to become an R Grader.) A cupper first scores coffee on several attributes, such as aroma and sweetness)

Extra knowledge:Ibb (Arabic: إِبّ, romanized: ʾIbb) is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about 117 km (73 mi) northeast of Mocha and 194 km (121 mi) south of Sana'a.[1] A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most important medium-sized cities in the country.[2] It is situated on a mountain ridge, surrounded by fertile land. As of 2005, it had a population of 160,000.

Arab Spring

The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisingsand armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation.[1][2] From Tunisia, the protests then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Rulers were deposed (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Ali Abdullah Saleh) or major uprisings and social violence occurred including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies. Sustained street demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. Minor protests took place in Djibouti, Mauritania, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.[3] A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām! (Arabic: الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام, lit.'the people want to bring down the regime').[4

Extra Info

In Yemen pro-democracyactivists and members of the opposition staged protests challenging the rule of Pres. ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh Ṣāliḥ, who had held power for more than three decades in spite of Yemen’s economic underdevelopment, shifting political landscape, and fractious tribal society. In this special feature, Britannica provides a guide to recent events in Yemen and explores the historical and geographic context of the conflict.

Second Muslim Women (Nobel Peace prize)

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman(Arabic: توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, romanized: Tawakkul 'Abd us-Salām Khalid Karmān; also romanized Tawakul,[3]Tawakel;[4][5][6] born 7 February 1979[6]) is a Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005.[3] She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Springuprisings. In 2011, she was reportedly called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" by some Yemenis.[7][8] She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize,[9]becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arabwoman,[10] and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Do not make any promises unless you are sure to deliver.

Mokhtor got malaria and two times diarrhea because of the food , water,fruit that he ate and drank.

There were always war in Yemen.It was because of tribes Most well knows was the war between Houthis and govenment LATER on Saudi and Yemem war was included.