Unstoppable traveller,
Arts and Culture lover,
A passion for cross-cultural dialogues,
Local life explorator
A taste for life, simply!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

While I travel, I always attach importance to encounters, it often led me to unforgettable moments, that's why I'm so excited to join this community now and begin some new adventures here!
I'm new on this website as I was still retarded about social networking, but i cannot count the couchsurfing-like experience I had during my trips!

Interests

Travel, needless to say...
Hiking
History: Ancient Near and Middle East , Ancient Rome and Greece, Ancient Egypt, French and Italian Renaissance, French 18th century, Western Africa civilization...
Arts: Antiquity, Renaissance and Baroque period, Ethnographic African Art...
Theatre: Ancient Greece ,Baroque Period, French classicism, Russian realism...
Music: Italian Opera from Monteverdi to Verdi!Traditional Music ( Near and Middle East, Western Africa...)
Cinema: American cinema from the 20's to the 50's, german expressionism, Italian Cinema, Iranian and Turkish cinema...

• arts
• culture
• fashion
• movies
• traveling
• music
• opera
• hiking
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite composers (for operatic works) :
Rossini , Bellini, Donizetti, Handel, Porpora, Cimarosa, Monteverdi, Traetta, Vinci, Hasse, Mayr, A.Scarlatti, Gluck...

My favorite movies:
Sunset Boulevard (B.Wilder)
All About Eve (J.L Mankiewicz)
Pandora's Box (G.W Pabst)
Shanghai Express (J.V Sternberg)
To be or not to be (E.Lubitsch)
Double Indemnity (B.Wilder)
A time to love and a time to die (D.Sirk)
The Lady of Shanghai (O.Welles)
All Fellini
All Visconti
Once Upon a time on Anatolia (N.B Ceylan)
A separation (A. Farhadi)

My favorite books:
All Ancients Greek tragedies by Eschyle, Euripide and Sophocle. Aristophane for comedies too!
All Shakespeare.
Renaissance epic poems by Il Tasso and L'Ariosto.
All Racine
All Corneille
All Moliere
All Tchekhov

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Observe several times the last population of Mountain gorillas that lives between Rwanda, Uganda and Congo (RDC).

Teach, Learn, Share

Hmm i don't know if it can be regarded as teaching, it's sharing for sure, but I can speak for hours about my passions that I described above, Italian opera, theatre, cinema, history of costume & fashion , if people in front of me are ok of course!

What I Can Share with Hosts

So many things, impossible to list what you can share with another human being!

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burundi, Congo, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Mali, Martinique, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Rwanda, Scotland, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States