What does it take to build the Middle East’s biggest cigar destination out of a suitcase?
Ra’ed Saqfelhait, co-founder and CEO of The Leaf Master, joins the show to share how he went from quitting cigarettes cold turkey to discovering New World cigars in New York, then selling them door-to-door out of a Samsonite bag across Dubai hotels.
He talks about opening the first 200-square-foot shop in 2018, expanding to Abu Dhabi’s Rosewood Hotel, a third location on the way in Ras Al Khaimah, a new cigar lounge launching by year’s end, and co-founding the World Cigar Show Dubai with the PCA.
