“From the secretive
circles of Yemen's ancient Sufi mystics to the Constantinople court
of the Ottoman Sultans to the backstreets of Mercantile London,
coffee has changed every society that fell under its heady sway.
Abdul-Rehman Malik has spent a lifetime searching for the soul of
coffee. Join us as we explore the culture, politics, spirituality
and the extraordinary history of the world’s most second traded
commodity – and learned how a humble bean – quite literally –
changed the world.”
Speaker: Abdul-Rehman
Malik is an award winning journalist, educator and
cultural organizer. A Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at
the Yale Divinity School, he also serves at the Program Coordinator
at Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies, and is
responsible for developing curricula and partnerships with public
schools to promote better cultural, language and religious literacy
about the Middle East to educators and students alike. Abdul-Rehman
also serves as Director of the Muslim Leadership Lab, an innovative
student leadership program being incubated at the Dwight Hall
Center of Social Justice at Yale. His work has spanned the UK,
United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, Mali, Morocco,
Singapore, Canada, Malaysia and beyond.