CURRENT MISSION

Save the world, starting with Sunnydale.

Interests

Performing, reading, listening to music, watching films, going to the theatre, galleries, museums, ranting about Turkish politics, debating about anything from human rights to perfume adverts, going for coffee breaks, wandering in parks and cemeteries, baking something delicious...I really like clocks, and maps.

• perfumes
• human rights
• coffee
• baking
• politics
• movies
• reading
• music
• cartography
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Some selected favourites?

Leon, Girl Interrupted, Silver Linings Playbook, Stoker, anything Disney, The Iron Giant, Persepolis, The Hunger Games, The Lord of the Rings, Whiplash, The Wanted 18, Mine Vaganti, Snatch, The Artist, Edward Scissorhands, Head-On, I Am a Cyborg But That's Ok, Scott Pilgrim, Pan's Labyrinth, Seven Psychopaths, In Bruges, Four Lions... I should stop..

Music: Balkan Beat Box, Beirut, Mew, HIM, Regina Spektor, Electronic Jazz, Rebetiko, Billie Holiday, Laura Marling, Devendra Banhart, Louis Armstrong, Melody Gardot, Teoman, Duman, Tim Minchin, Etta James, Goran Bregovic, Gorillaz, Mumford and Sons, Nina Simone, The Noisettes, The Smiths, Pink Martini, The Stone Roses, Woodkid, Charles Mingus...

Books: Tolkien.. <3, also a fan of C.S. Lewis, everything Murathan Mungan writes, The Book Thief, anything by Orhan Pamuk (especially The Museum of Innocence), American Gods, The Kingkiller Chronicle, The Alchemist, Palestine by Joe Sacco, Birds Without Wings, Picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Last Island by Livaneli, Chocolat, His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Abhorsen Trilogy, A Beginner's Guide to Acting English, Alain de Botton...

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn anything and everything.

I will share anything from recommendations for gypsy fusion music to discourses about human rights.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Iraq, Turkey, United Kingdom