From April 19 to 25 the Hilton Hotel Tokyo is hosting a culture and food promotion evocatively themed "Breeze From Tunisia." Chefs from Hilton Tunis are presenting authentic Tunisian cuisine. At a gala luncheon April 22 a raffle will be held for tickets for the Japan-Tunisia World Cup match, and for airline tickets to Tunisia. The gala dinner April 22 will feature a spectacular jewelry fashion show produced by the eminent jewelry designer Kazuo Ogawa.
The Embassy of Tunisia is co-organizing the gala dinner. Ambassador Salah Hannachi said: "It was Tunisia who suggested that Japan and South Korea jointly host the soccer World Cup 2002 finals. What may have seemed like Solomon's solution has become the symbol of an important reconciliation between two great East Asian nations, both good friends of Tunisia. We are proud to have contributed this symbol."
Hannachi is very well-rounded in his interests and activities. As a boy at school in Tunisia, he favored mathematics. He took his degree in mathematics at the University of Tunis, and taught the subject for a year at a technical school. "Then," he said, "it seemed to me that the U.S. was the place to know, the place I was looking for." He went to Indiana University to gain his master's degree in business administration. At Indiana he met Lynn, a French-language scholar.