A nonprofit from Mokhtar Alkhanshali, the central figure in Dave Eggers’s book “The Monk of Mokha,” is helping roasters connect with Yemeni farmers. By Florence Fabricant In 2018 Dave Eggers ...

Dave Eggers is telling the remarkable true story of a Yemeni coffee farmer for his next book. Alkhanshali, now back in San Francisco, spoke to EW from his hometown in a frank interview, in which ...

In the spring of 2015, news outlets ran a story about a 26-year-old, raised in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, who had fled Yemen on a skiff, crossing the Red Sea with little more than two ...

Yemen's Houthi movement launched missiles and drones at the Red Sea port city of al-Mokha on Wednesday causing injuries and deaths, forces in the anti-Houthi military coalition said. There was no ...

“The Monk of Mokha” (Alfred A. Knopf), by Dave Eggers As legend has it, coffee was born in Yemen, when a Sufi brewed the beverage to fuel his late-night devotions. Roughly 700 years lat… ...

NONFICTION: A fast-paced account of a Yemeni-American's attempts to introduce Yemen coffee to the United States. Minneapolis. 23°F. eEdition. Minnesota News You Can Use. The Latest.

SANAA, Yemen – A top military official says forces allied with the internationally-recognized government of Yemen have seized control of a strategic Red Sea port, after waging an assault against ...

Dave Eggers first made his splash as a memoirist in 2000 with “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” But his special strength, over the past dozen years, has been taking dramatic stories ...

After weeks of intense negotiations, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has reached the embattled district of Mokha in Yemen’s western governorate of Taizz, where hostilities between the warring parties ...

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked the port of Mokha in the west of Taiz province Saturday, causing damage to infrastructure, according to forces backed by the Saudi-led military ...

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Saturday it had received a report of two attacks on a vessel 64 nautical miles (118.5 km) northwest of Yemen's Mokha, causing slight ...