Ambassador of Tunisia, Salah Al Salhi, and diplomats from the embassies of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sudan and Palestine jointly inaugurating the Tunisia Week 2017 at Lulu Hypermarket, Al Gharrafa, yesterday, in the presence of Mohamed Althaf, Director of
Lulu Hypermarket Group has organised ‘Tunisia Week 2017’ for the first time in Qatar to explore the food and food habits of Tunisia.
The festival was jointly inaugurated by the Ambassador of Tunisia to Qatar, Salah Al Salhi, and diplomats from the embassies of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sudan and Palestine at Lulu Hypermarket, Al Gharrafa, yesterday in the presence of Mohamed Althaf, Director of Lulu Group International, other senior officials from Lulu Qatar Region, and dignitaries from various organisations.
The festival was organised in line with the ongoing ‘World Food Expo 2017’ and Qatar International Food Festival (QIFF) at all Lulu Hypermarkets in the Qatar Region with the objective of celebrating the culinary heritage and food habits of Tunisia and to make it popular among the local community as well as large cross-section of expatriate communities hailing from various countries. Lulu as a major retailer of the region, every year organises innovative festivals that would promote the food and food products of various countries.
Situated centrally on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, Tunisia shares borders with Algeria on the west and southwest and Libya on the southeast. Home of the ancient city of Carthage, Tunisia was once an important player in the Mediterranean. The Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks and French realised their strategic significance, making it a hub for control over the region. Tunisia is more prosperous than its neighbours. Agriculture employs a large part of the workforce and tourism is a key sector.
Lulu Group has been importing since long a variety of fruits and vegetables — cherry tomato, fresh dates, fennel bulb, leeks, mushroom, orange and Mandrain etc from Tunisia. A wide range of jams, harissa, droo, bsissa, pickles, olive oil, cumin powder, ras hanout, carvi caraway, coriander, dried dates and lella baya etc from the country constitute a major portion of Lulu’s imports.
Lulu Group is the largest retail chain in the Middle East, Egypt, India, Malaysia and Indonesia operating 133 hypermarkets and 15 shopping malls with an annual turnover of US$6.2bn globally.
The Group has a vast organisational structure of over 40,000 employees.
