CURRENT MISSION

Using couch-surfing to increase social capital world-wide.

ABOUT ME

I am an American who has lived almost half his life abroad in the UK. Fortunately I don't have one of those terrible mid-Atlantic accents like on Fraiser or Loyd Grossman.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to be relaxed, tolerant and out-going.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to this, but intend to participate to the best of my abilities.

Interests

History (especially of the Middle East), literature, international political economy, film, laughter...

• literature
• surfing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple, Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, The Prize by Daniel Yergin, The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1984 by George Orwell, Leo the African by Amin Maalouf

MUSIC
Bedouin Soundclash, Taj Mahal, De La Soul, Del the Funky Homosapien, Kings of Leon, Cat Stevens, Dire Straits, John Lennon, Blur, the Cat Empire, Trojan Box Sets

FILM
Chinatown, The Big Lebowski, Underground, Laurence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Amores Perros, The Graduate, La Haine

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