Never a fourth cup

I once asked for a ‘Turkish coffee’ in an extremely cozy little café in Beirut, Lebanon. The owner faced me with a friendly though unmistakable stare of admonition. ‘It’s called ‘Arabic coffee’, madam’. So this time, traveling the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and knowing I wanted to write about coffee, I decided to educate myself first, and started in the Coffee Museum in Dubai’s Al Fahidi Historical District. After spending some time here, so I thought, I could face the coffee brewers of the UAE well prepared and with confidence.