Ali B. M. Mahjoub was raised in a Bedouin Muslim family in Tunisia, North Africa. At seventeen, he became a farm laborer for three years before obtaining a job in a government-run hotel chain.
After being sent to Brussels, Belgium, for management training, he worked as a maître d' at London's prestigious Green Park Hotel and Hyde Park Hotel. His career took him to Iran in 1976, and then to Saudi Arabia, while his passion for travel took him to more than twenty countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
In 1981 God delivered him to the United States and to Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. He eventually studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, and in 1991, he went to Indiana to become the food and beverage director at the Canterbury Hotel.
Currently living in Fishers, Indiana, he is married and has one daughter.
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