CURRENT MISSION

I am travelling for different humanitarian, book and film projects

ABOUT ME

".. and I tell to myself that in the whole adventure of life, there must be someone who would re-read with us for the twentieth time, if need be, a questionable page; someone who bolsters our courage and approves, or sometimes disputes, our ideas; who shares with us, and with equal fervor, the joys of art and of living, the endless work which both require, never easy but never dull; someone who is neither our shadow nor our reflection, nor even our complement, but simply himself; someone who leaves us ideally free, but who nevertheless obliges us to be fully what we are. Hospes Comesque ("guest and companion").

PHILOSOPHY

Never forget one's insignificance;
admire the force but never the power;
there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

• arts
• literature
• theater
• street art
• photography
• film making
• dancing
• music
• history
• cinema
• documentary
• arabic
• middle east
• philosphy
• balkans

Music, Movies, and Books

Films:

Rio I Love you: ten filmmakers present 10 short stories about encounters of love in the neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro.

Words with Gods: comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof.

Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso

Fatih Akin - Soul Kitchen, In July, Solino, Goodbye Berlin (Tschick)

Emir Kusturica - On The Milky Road, Life is A Miracle, Underground, Time of the Gypsies,

Fernando Meirelles - City of God

Nadine Labaki - Caramel

Guillermo Arriaga (screenwriter) - Babel, 21 Grams,

Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty

Hany Abu Assad - Paradise Now, Omar

Elia Suleiman - Chronicle of a Disappearance

Annemarie Jacir - Salt of This Sea

Books:

Christian Bobin - "Autoportrait au radiateur",
Paolo Coelho - "The Zahir",
Goethe -"Die Leiden des Jungen Werther",
Albert Camus - "L'étranger",
Adonis - "If only the sea could sleep"
Elif Shafak "The Forty Rules of Love"
Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend (2012), The Story of a New Name (2013), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2014), and The Story of the Lost Child (2015).
Hari Kunzru - Gods Without Animals

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helped Syrian refugees families getting to safety in Germany.

Teach, Learn, Share

"...An independent mind is independent of all allegiances" [William Deresiewicz]

„Was ich an einer Person liebe ist nicht ihre Schönheit, ihr Reichtum oder ihre Intelligenz - sondern die Tiefgründigkeit des Bandes, welches sie an das Leben zu knüpfen vermochte.“ [ Christian Bobin]

"...Des moments libres. Toute vie bien réglée a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre. [Marguerite Yourcenar, extrait des Mémoires d'Hadrien]

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Israel, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Panama, Qatar, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United States, Yemen, Zambia

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