Salut tout le monde!

American Armenian masters student currently living in Paris. Friendly, outgoing, open, and compassionate :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Wonderful opportunity to meet interesting people and very attracted to this alternative mode of lodging based in large part on solidarity!

Interests

• arts
• painting
• classical music
• tennis
• history
• film
• queer
• communism
• playing piano
• progressive politics
• anti-capitalism
• anti-racism
• queer theory
• marxism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Yasmine Handam, Mashrou Leila, Alsarah and the Nubatones, Hindi Zahra, Omar Souleyman, Tinariwen, Tamikrest, Fatoumata Diawara, луна , Manu Chao, Beach House, Animal Collective, Beirut, Local Natives, Fleet Foxes, Lykke Li, Yourh Lagoon, Bon Iver, Iron and Wine, Malek Jandali, Brahams, Rachmaninoff, Chilly Gonzales, Tchaikovsky..

Movies: зеркало, Москва слезам не верит, Color of Pomegranates, Women without men, Turbulent, Belle du Jour, Vodka Lemon, Egon Schiele, Atonement, Melancholia, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Midnight in Paris...

Books: Warped: Gay Normativity and Queer Anticapitalism, WikiLeaks: , Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Slaughterhause Five, Cats Cradle, The Eternal Lightness of Being, Orientalism, Capital, Communist Manifesto, And the Mountains Echoed, Burning Tigris, Anna Karenina, Dead Souls, Crime and Punishment, L'étranger, Shock Doctrine..

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, Ecuador, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, France, Germany, Switzerland, United States