22 year old living in London, and recent graduate from the University of Cambridge where I read History. Now work in government, and do some Middle East policy-related stuff on the side. However, I also love doing things more on the creative side (pottery, painting, etc.). Lived in the Gulf for a few months in 2018, and have caught the travel bug - which led me to spend a large part of 2019 travelling and using couchsurfing. I would love to hang out and stay with people from all backgrounds and interests and learn a thing or two from you! I've made some of my closest friends through couchsurfing, and would like to expand that list!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have met some of my closest friends through this website, who have taught me more about their countries and cities than I could ever get from a book or the internet. I want to visit as many countries as possible in my 20s whilst visiting as many people from those countries as possible; Couchsurfing seems like the perfect way to achieve this!

I am in no way needy or fussy, and would be happy with a corner of your room if that is all you had to offer (I have slept in much worse places, including a bed made of beer cans)!

Interests

• literature
• architecture
• fashion
• politics
• painting
• anthropology
• geopolitics
• history
• international relations
• languages
• philosophy
• art
• storytelling
• africa
• film
• exploration
• middle east
• food culture
• philology
• local culture
• museums and exhibitions
• nature walks
• policy
• history of art

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
BROCKHAMPTON, Hop Along, Dumbo Gets Mad, Habibi Funk, boy pablo, Tyler the Creator, Kero Kero Bonito, Higher Brothers, Die Antwoord, Little Simz, No Vacation, Tangerine, Onra, Joy Again, Caribou, Noname, Walter, Princess Nokia, Fishmans, El Michels Affair, Weval, Solange, Roy Orbison, Alvvays, Diners, AfroCubism, Ravyn Lenae, Bushbaby, Morcheeba, Car Seat Headrest, Al Bowlly, anything bossa nova

Books:
The Secret History (Donna Tartt), In Praise of Older Women (Stephen Vizinczey), American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis), The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt), The Language of Cities (Deyan Sudjic), L’Étranger (Albert Camus), Nausea (Jean Paul Sartre), A Cup of Rage (Raduan Nassar), Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh), The Futurist Cookbook (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti), How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy), Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (Andrew Arsan), Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah (Tim Mackintosh-Smith).

Movies:
Hiroshima Mon Amour, La Haine, Queen of the Desert, Lawrence of Arabia, Belle de Jour, Airplane!, The Apartment, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Favourite, Get Out, Hateful Eight, American Psycho, Grave of the Fireflies, Persepolis, In The Mood For Love, In The Heat of the Sun, Oldboy, A Clockwork Orange, The Dreamers, Beasts of No Nation, Parasite, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Capernaum, The Lighthouse

Always looking for new recommendations!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Had dinner with a sheikh

- Got lost in the Arabian Desert

- Drove 3000km in 3 days around the Gulf

- Broke into the 4th best party in the world twice

- Travelled 3500km across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in 7 days by train

- Organised a last-minute CS party in Milan

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom