Interests

• books
• graphic design
• meditation
• reading
• swimming
• teaching
• history
• mathematics
• solo travel
• cinema
• nature
• stars
• seaside
• rain
• sunsets

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Instrumental

Fav Books:
Little Prince (my all time favorite)
The Kite Runner (Khalid Hussaini)
1984 & Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Americanah (Chimmamanda)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)
When Nietzsche Wept (Irvin D. Yalom)
Homo Sapiens (Harari)
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Letter to a Child Never Born (Oriana Fallaci)
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Pieces of a Coherent Whole (Pouneh Moghimi)
Swimming in the Dark (Tomasz Jedrowski)
The Overcoat (Nikolai Gogol)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)

Fav Movies & Series:
Schindler’s List
Good Will Hunting
Scent of a Woman
The Shawshank Redemption
The Truman Show
Green Book
Oppenheimer
Dead Poet Society
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Peaceful Warrior
The Grave of Fireflies
The Zone of Interest
Lost in Translation
The Help
Silenced
Poor Things
Detachment
A Separation
Sentimental Value

Friends
Shrinking
Ted Lasso
The Queen’s Gambit
This is Us

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-It’s been two years since I deleted all my social media and stepped away from the online world.

- completed a 10-day Vipassana meditation course, maintaining complete silence for the whole period, staying at the center and meditating from 9-11 hours a day.

Countries I’ve Visited

Pakistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran