Map It Forward Middle East Podcast

This is the 5th in a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward hosted by Lee Safar with cafe owner, Zainab Al Mousawi. Zainab is the owner of a Dubai-based cafe and spent 10 years of her career as a barista in Melbourne, Australia. In this series, in the lead-up to World of Coffee Dubai in Jan 2024, Zainab shares her experience of what it's like to start a cafe in an emerging market and how she's managed to survive the past 5 years when most close after 6 months.

In this final episode of the series on the podcast, Zainab opens up about the journey of opening her own cafe in an emerging market and gives us an insight into what she didn't expect in the journey.

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This is the 4th in a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward hosted by Lee Safar with cafe owner, Zainab Al Mousawi. Zainab is the owner of a Dubai-based cafe and spent 10 years of her career as a barista in Melbourne, Australia. In this series, in the lead-up to World of Coffee Dubai in Jan 2024, Zainab shares her experience of what it's like to start a cafe in an emerging market and how she's managed to survive the past 5 years when most close after 6 months.

In this episode of the series on the podcast, Zainab helps us understand how her time in the Australian coffee scene over many years influenced how she fashioned her business in Dubai and how the two markets compare.

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This is the 3rd in a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward hosted by Lee Safar with cafe owner, Zainab Al Mousawi. Zainab is the owner of a Dubai-based cafe and spent 10 years of her career as a barista in Melbourne, Australia. In this series, in the lead-up to World of Coffee Dubai in Jan 2024, Zainab shares her experience of what it's like to start a cafe in an emerging market and how she's managed to survive the past 5 years when most close after 6 months.

In this episode of the series on the podcast, Zainab and Lee explore what it means to start a cafe in the UAE and how it's unique as a market compared to other markets.

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This is the 2nd in a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward hosted by Lee Safar with cafe owner, Zainab Al Mousawi. Zainab is the owner of a Dubai-based cafe and spent 10 years of her career as a barista in Melbourne, Australia. In this series, in the lead-up to World of Coffee Dubai in Jan 2024, Zainab shares her experience of what it's like to start a cafe in an emerging market and how she's managed to survive the past 5 years when most close after 6 months.

In this episode of the series on the podcast, Zainab helps us navigate what's so special about coffee and the market in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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This is the first in a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward hosted by Lee Safar with cafe owner, Zainab Al Mousawi. Zainab is the owner of a Dubai-based cafe and spent 10 years of her career as a barista in Melbourne, Australia. In this series, in the lead-up to World of Coffee Dubai in Jan 2024, Zainab shares her experience of what it's like to start a cafe in an emerging market and how she's managed to survive the past 5 years when most close after 6 months.

In this first episode of the series on the podcast, Zainab gives us an understanding of the coffee scene in Dubai.

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