- trying to balance my restlessness with completing my studies
- a mantra of being process and result oriented, independent, continuously learning/contributing fully to anything, reasoning through retrospection
- a continuous memory hoarder by means of writing and videography
- podcast lover

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

productive disequilibrium, building meaningful connection, to listen
(more detailed thoughts on the relationship of a host to the hosted, applicable in many cases: https://brightthemag.com/the-third-world-is-not-your-classroom-9eee1546f565)

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Young the Giant, Two Door Cinema Club, any Arabic music (Nancy Ajram, Fairouz, etc), A.R. Rahman -- I like to mix it up

Movies: Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, any documentaries (Planet Earth, Chef's Table, etc etc)

Books: can never choose a favorite but recent faves include The Idiot (both by Batuman and Dostoyevsky), The Opposite of Loneliness, The Prophet, currently reading Gandhi's autobiography

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hiked to Macchu Picchu, motorbiked along cliffs in Thailand, camped in the Sahara desert

What I Can Share with Hosts

my passion for life/traveling/cultures
how to make mango sticky rice
beginning Arabic
current politics in Uzbekistan
Moroccan food