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When my brother Ahmed and I decided to start Numi Organic Tea in the summer of 1998, it was a given that I would do the art on the packaging and he would do the tea blends. He had owned and operated tea houses in Prague and knew a lot about tea. I have been drawing since my childhood and was steeped in the Arts. We both have been creative all our lives and it...

How I fell into tea? Many people ask me how I got into tea. Actually, the question is not so much how did I get into tea but rather how I got into tea after getting into art after getting into engineering. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio after my family immigrated from Baghdad, Iraq when I was five. My father was a doctor who worked around the clock raising his children, putting them through...