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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