CURRENT MISSION

"تسير بنا هذه الليالي كأنها ** سفائن بحر مالهنّ مراسي"
"Ces nuits nous emportent... comme des bateaux qui n'ont pas d'ancre..." (Al Mutanabbi)
"These nights take us... like boats that have no anchor..." (Al Mutanabbi)

ABOUT ME

A Tunisian Medical Doctor who survived long-boring-medical-studies, working and living in Tunis where I was born.
Urban cycling enthusist, with a huge reading addiction. I can esily spend a large part of my daily free time seeking for well directed movies or walking around the city with my camera trying to be a self-taught photographer. And yes, I don't eat onion ! :D

I really appreciate starting conversations with pepole from all over the world, sharing new experiences, exchanging some travel stories. I can tell you a lot about Tunisia and it's impressive history, monuments, villages,... some friends say I was born inside a museum, but unfortunately that never happened! ;)

PHILOSOPHY

"There is one but truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer."
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, through my profile on couchsurfing.org I try as much as possible to meet local and foreign travelers. When travelling I enjoy couchsurfing each time. I already took part to many meeting and activities orgonized by our local CS community in Tunisia. I even organized some local meetings. I can confirm that the CS spirit is strong enough in Tunisia.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Many good surprises so far, that made you meeting a lot of people and life friends. That make you also learning a lot from their travelling stories. Until now, I took part to local meetings and trips, I spend time sending messages, replying to other ones, accepting or refusing couch requests, leaving positive and negative references, and of course never stopping from surfing and hosting strange-interesting-people!

I hosted :
1. Errol from France
2. Philip from England
3. Adrian from France
4. Martin from Germany
5. Cara from Australia
6. Tim from Germany
7. Nejma from Algeria
8. Johanna from Germany
9. Chang from Taiwan

I surfed:
1. Ismail (Paris, France)
2. Olivier (Paris, France)
3. Alain (Paris, France)
4. Aziz (Paris, France)
5. Raphaelle (Paris, France)
6. Konstantin (Brussels, Belgium)
7. Marta (Warsaw, Poland)
8. Viktor (Budapest, Hungary)
9. Balazs (Budapest, Hungary)
10. Brahim (Beni Ksila, Algeria)
11. Amine (Berlin, Germany)
12. Hannah (Berlin, Germany)
13. Ben (Hong Kong)
14. Ken (Hong Kong)
15. Sebastian (Taichung, Taiwan)
16. Ou (Shenzhen, China)
17. Alex (Guangzhou, China)
18. Claire (Vientiane, Laos)
19. Hafidh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
20. Riz (Bangkok, Thailand)
21. Samuel (Saigon, Vietnam)
22. Nga (Hanoi, Vietnam)
23. Diana (Bali, Indonesia)
24. Don (Jakarta, Indonesia)
25. Eli and Juanma (Granada, Spain)
26. Gianluca (Messina, Italy)
27. Mohamed (Bejaïa, Algeria)
28. Ferroudja and Houcine (Algiers, Algeria)
29. Zied (Toulouse, France)
30. Fabien (Le Plan, France)
31. Vicky (Marseille, France)
32. Mary (Marseille, France)
33. La Coloc à Thérése: Audrey, Florian and Martin (Nantes, France)
34. Sven (Berlin, Germany)
35. Sergio and Ibti (Madrid, Spain)
36. Giulia (Napoli, Italy)

Interests

In another life I would loved being an architect, a writer, a cinema director or just a simple photographer... And that is making me today a big fan of Music, Cinema and Photography, enjoying some frequent reading addiction moments. Don't know, that's how I explain it!
In other parts of my free time I try hard to understand some strange politic facts. Always travelling with my newspaper.
Also I like driving my bike sunday early in the morning while my city Tunis is still sleeping.

• culture
• writing
• architecture
• photography
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

**Music: Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Dire Straits, Manu Chao, Serge Gainsbourg, Amazigh Kateb, Khaled, Sabah Fakhri,,... and all those I forgot !

**Movies: Some of Stanley Kubrick's Films (Shining, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Oddysey)- Winter Sleep (Ceylan) - Films of Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, La Grande Bellezza, Youth) - La Stanza del Figlio (Nanni Moretti) - Bab'Aziz (Nacer Khemir) - The Time That Remains (Elia Sulaiman) - Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) - Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon (Julian Schnabel)

**Books: Books of Mahmoud Messadi, Albert Camus, Taoufik Ben brik, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Mathias Enard, Kamel Daoud, Boualem Sansal, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trying to enjoy great couchsurfing times each time I travel !
Only good memories and awesome folks ! :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Everything to share, and especially a great tunisian culture with a very mysterious way of life in a sunny Tunisia !

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

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