The Saudi writer and poet, Abdullah Al-Nasser, through his book “Nama’s Coffee”, invites coffee lovers to make their own adventures with coffee, by renewing their spirit first and their way of looking at it as “(a mountain) of amazing buried knowledge and tales that deserve climbing, then As (a tool) to discover the universe in all its complexity. ”
Through his book, published by the “House of Novels” specializing in publishing Arabic and translated literary works belonging to the “Group of Words” in the Emirates, Al-Nasser takes readers on a search trip in which the world has traveled from east to west to see the history and the mysterious world of coffee, and reveals secrets from the archives of European libraries , Strange worlds for making coffee from Latin America, and strange details from the Arab world.
In his book, which is located in 221 pages, Al-Nasser indicates that what is new in "Naameh Coffee" is that he deals with narration of historical and philosophical anatomy of coffee, which he describes as green fairy, through a personal experience in exploring the global silence of the uncultivated coffee, which he later seduced to learn the most accurate secrets Coffee through specialized courses in preparation, roasting and professional taste skills, and through special trips to the cafes of the modern and ancient world.
On the possibility of including the book in the context of the novelist journalistic work, as long as the author relied on documents and trips to monitor the story of coffee, Al-Nasser said: “I think that the book is not a purely investigative journalistic work, and it is also easy to classify the book of the American chef Jeff Koehler (where wild coffee grows) issued Arabic in the same period. It is true that during my travels and trips to cafes, I had many conversations with coffee specialists and coffee lovers, but I did not adhere to the investigative journalistic approach in the book (Coffee Nama).
He added: “The documents that opened my eyes to the Library of Congress, for example, contributed to the discovery of aesthetic and historical regions related to the link of coffee to cosmic culture for five centuries, and how coffee was historically linked to writing, music, philosophy, experimental sciences and sociology, and how coffee formulated the map of the modern world. Above all, how did she adhere as a herb of peace to the simple human spirit and his ordinary misery. Many readers ask me about the classification and gender of the book (Coffee Nama). And the answer transparently is: I don't know. It is just a message in the coffee I wrote with pure love. ” The writer recounts how he walked the roads of historical coffee houses, and moved between Hijaz, Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, Vienna, London, Paris, Berlin, Boston, New York and the Vikings capitals, and others, and climbed the coffee house as a reader and lover and disciple in its schools, and worked as a waiter on short days of holidays and a roasting teacher, and read in the history of love and war And the doctrines, philosophy and arts associated with coffee, and he read about everything to know coffee, so he knew all the things and at the end believed "no one gets to coffee".
"The many coffee secrets are what make this (the Green Fairy) able to kidnap us every day," Al-Nasser asserts. This regeneration, richness, diversity, complexity and wild rebellious spirit that characterize coffee and its breeds, and methods of extracting it make it a great secret that everyone is searching for, and no one can reach it completely. Coffee is simply (a dream) we have not yet died from. So no one can explain it. ”
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Abdullah Al-Nasser interprets the phrase “Nobody reaches coffee” saying: “Despite everything written about coffee and its secrets more than five centuries ago, and despite our recent success in knowing the DNA sequence of Arabic coffee and mapping its genetic map, we still like to know everything related to It out. '
It is noteworthy that Abdullah Al-Nasser, a Saudi poet and translator, holds a PhD degree from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, published a poetry book entitled "Corpses in Exhaustion Garments", and worked in the Saudi press.
A research trip in which the writer toured the world from east to west.
• A magic tool to discover the universe in all its complexities as seen by some.
• Personal experience in exploring the untold global coffee heritage.