This natural-processed lot comes to us via Pearl of Tehama, a Yemeni exporter founded in 2015 by Fatoum Muslot, as an extension of her father Ali Hiba Muslot’s long-running coffee business. As one of Yemen’s first female coffee exporters, Fatoum has continued her family’s work while building stronger market access for farmers and supporting quality-focused production. 

Anis, in Yemen's Dhamar Governorate south of Sana'a, is a mountainous coffee-growing region where coffee is cultivated on ancient stone terraces and in fertile valleys at elevations of roughly 1,500 to 2,500 meters. Production is dominated by small family farms that rely on generations of inherited farming knowledge and careful hand-harvesting, often making multiple picking passes to select only ripe cherries. Natural (sun-dried) processing is the regional standard, with coffee dried on rooftops, raised beds, or improved drying systems before hulling and sorting. For green coffee buyers, Anis stands out for its traceable microlot potential, traditional local coffee varieties, expanding coffee acreage, and growing investment in quality improvements across harvesting, drying, and post-harvest handling.

Country of Origin: Yemen

Producer Type: Small Holder Farms

Processing: Natural/Dry Processed

Processing Description: Sun Dried on Rooftops and Raised Beds

Growing Altitude: 1500-2200 MASL

Plant Species: Arabica

Varietals: Yemeni Heirloom

History of Coffee in Yemen

We know that Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee as a plant, but if you want to talk about the first intensification of commercial cultivation and exportation of coffee, we are talking about Yemen. The birthplace of coffee is Ethiopia, and the birthplace of the coffee industry is almost certainly Yemen. No place on earth has been cultivating coffee for international trade at scale as long as Yemen. For hundreds of years Yemen maintained a monopoly on growing and exporting green coffee. While coffee drinking expanded across the globe, coffee growing did not until the 17th century, and that only happened with assistance from a generation of determined smugglers and adventurers.