Singer Rihanna and her Saudi-businessman boyfriend Hassan Jameel have reportedly parted ways.
According to reports, the couple, both 31, have separated after almost three years together, having first been linked in early 2017.
While the notoriously private couple are yet to comment, sources confirmed the split to Us Weekly on Friday.
Jameel is the deputy president and vice chairman of family-run business, Abdul Latif Jameel, which owns the exclusive distribution rights to Toyota in Saudi Arabia. The family also owns the Saudi premier football league, and is said to be worth an estimated $1.5 billion (Dh5.5 billion).
While Rihanna has rarely commented on her relationship with Jameel, the pair have been pictured together on numerous European trips, and Jameel also supported her at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
In a 2019 interview, Rihanna was asked if she was in love, to which she responded “of course”.
Rihanna is not the first celebrity Jameel has been linked to, after reportedly dating supermodel Naomi Campbell in 2016.
The more serious side of specialty coffee
While the taste of beans and freshness of roast is paramount to the specialty coffee scene, so is sustainability and workers’ rights.
The bulk of genuine specialty coffee companies aim to improve on these elements in every stage of production via direct relationships with farmers. For instance, Mokha 1450 on Al Wasl Road strives to work predominantly with women-owned and -operated coffee organisations, including female farmers in the Sabree mountains of Yemen.
Because, as the boutique’s owner, Garfield Kerr, points out: “women represent over 90 per cent of the coffee value chain, but are woefully underrepresented in less than 10 per cent of ownership and management throughout the global coffee industry.”
One of the UAE’s largest suppliers of green (meaning not-yet-roasted) beans, Raw Coffee, is a founding member of the Partnership of Gender Equity, which aims to empower female coffee farmers and harvesters.
Also, globally, many companies have found the perfect way to recycle old coffee grounds: they create the perfect fertile soil in which to grow mushrooms.
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