I studied Marine Biology at Shahid Beheshti university in Tehran, during my studies, in order to do field work I traveled to northern regions and southern parts of Iran, namely Miankaleh peninsula, Qeshm Island, Hormuz Island and Bandar Abbas... observing their rich diverse ecosystems. for the time being I'm just trying to figure out what to do next in my life.

I was born in Bordeaux, France and raised in Tehran and Rasht.

when I travel I like the idea of going along with grain.

This is my traveling companion's review with more details :
http://whatstheuseofatitleanyway.blogspot.com/2016/12/i-needed-out.html

I also find photography immensely meditative:

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this is my code of ethics on cs:
https://blog.couchsurfing.com/community-post-how-to-be-a-good-couchsurfing-guest-and-host/

Interests

I'm big fan of heavy literature and all those writers like Flaubert, Balzac, Dostoevsky & etc..., I love diverse world of cinema from around the globe, I listen to all kind of music from Iranian or western classics to Jazz and Hiphop depending on my mood, used to be a Pingpong player, love casually smoking marijuana but I'm not into heavy stuffs.

• literature
• photography
• meditation
• music
• biology
• sociology
• dance
• cinemas
• dance parties
• pingpong

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: johann sebastian bach, new orlean's jazz, Wu tang clan, earth band, Tom waits
Books: crime and punishment, madame bovary, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Forough farokhzad poems
Movies: Apu trilogy(India), they live by night(US), sword of doom(Japan), kings of the road(Germany), le samourai(France), Close to Eden(Mongolia), The Bread and Alley(Iran),An Elephant sitting still(China)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

while trying to make an authentic experience of south Indian culture of music and dance, I found a residential dance school, a mystical village situated near a lake 30 km from Bengaluru called Nrityagram. It was a place where nothing exists, except dance. A place where you breathe, eat, sleep, dream, talk, imagine - dance. I was only allowed to watch their rehearsals but even so I'll never forget mystical tenderness and beauty of their movement and expression.
this is their website:
http://www.nrityagram.org/

What I Can Share with Hosts

-I love coffee so a cup of home-brewed coffee
-homemade pizzas

Countries I’ve Visited

France, India

Countries I’ve Lived In

Iran