Mint Tea for Peace in Cambridge

Mint Tea for Peace | A Mint Tea for Peace

Mintealogy Seminar at the University of Cambridge

NANA1807 House has the immense honor to announce the organization of an exceptional Mintealogy seminar, in partnership with the Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge . Entitled Mint Tea for Peace , this event is aimed at teacher-researchers and doctoral students in an approach resolutely focused on intercultural dialogue , well-being at university , and transmission through the senses and traditions .

Gentle teaching for a world under tension

Mintéalogie , the art and science of Mint Tea , is an approach developed by Maison NANA1807 which offers a new language of peace , rooted in ancestral gestures , medicinal plants , and Moroccan hospitality .

At once a sensory experience , a poetic ritual and a tool for intercultural mediation , it has established itself as an innovative pedagogy for universities and major schools: a space for breathing and reconnecting with life in academic environments sometimes marked by pressure, competition or distance between cultures.

A House, a living model

Maison NANA1807 , founded by the Mouima family, a passionate and committed Franco-Moroccan family, supports a model of entrepreneurship that is both rooted and innovative , respectful of know-how and open to contemporary challenges:
– biodiversity ,
– intergenerational and intercultural dialogue ,
– creation of value around peace, taste, transmission .

Their entrepreneurial journey , as French Muslim women , embodies a rare and valuable voice in the public debate, particularly in a tense European context surrounding Islam . Their testimony, integrated into the seminar, will offer students a source of human and professional inspiration .

Seminar program

• Commented sensory tasting

Comparative discovery of three emblematic creations :
– MOUIMA , a sweet and reassuring infusion with childhood notes;
– GOOD HOPE , fresh and bright, promise of the future;
– ONE&ONLY , complex, floral, almost mystical.

• Olfactory and botanical journey

Mints from Morocco, Teas from Asia, Rooibos from South Africa… A guided journey to learn to smell, recognize, name .

• New recipes & gourmet rituals

Presentation and tasting of sweets combining Berry traditions and Moroccan pastries:

• GOOD HOPE Rooibos Infused Macarons
• MOUIMA shortbread ,
• Gazelle horns with orange blossom ,
• Almond-lemon Ghriba ,
• Anise-almond Fekkas

• Entrepreneurial testimony

A sensitive moment of sharing around the experience of a French Muslim entrepreneur , co-founder of the House, to approach with frankness, finesse and hope the identity and cultural issues of our time.

Why host a Mintealogy seminar?

Organizing a Mintealogy seminar in a major school or university means:

✔ Offer students a moment of breathing and grounding , through the soothing rituals of tea.
✔ Cultivate sensory intelligence and plant memory as transdisciplinary educational tools.
✔ Encourage gentle, sensitive, embodied diplomacy that speaks to the heart as much as to the mind.
✔ Inspire future graduates to invent responsible, poetic, grounded and meaningful forms of entrepreneurship.

We warmly thank Professor Amira Bennison , Chair of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, for her trust and generous hospitality. Thanks to her, Mintealogy will be able to bring its scents of peace , its gestures of humanity , and its philosophy of connection to Cambridge.