I have a vast range of interests, spanning from logic and argumentation to languages and linguistics to music and art to history, politics, and cultures to cults and religions to Chinese, Western, and Islamic philosophies.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like talking to people from different cultural backgrounds.

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Interests

• culture
• literature
• poetry
• politics
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• hiking
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• tango argentino

Music, Movies, and Books

Western European music from the 1700s to 1800s, Egyptian music from the 1940s to 1960s, traditional and new tango music, and literary and political Cantopop.

Favourite writers:
Naguib Mahfouz
Cao Xueqin
Jane Austen

Favourite directors:
Wong Kar Wai
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Wim Wenders
Abbas Kiarostami, Asghar Farhadi, Majid Majidi, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Shadi Abdel Salam

Favourite movie stars:
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Zhang Ziyi
Soad Hosny
Rushdy Abaza

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went to all corners of Egypt by microbus

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Palestine, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates