I'm 50 years old, single, and a geotechnical engineer. In addition to my expertise, I study music and play the setar, a traditional Iranian instrument, and I am really interested in art, particularly music and movies. My entire family and I are atheists, and the only values that matter to me are humanity, honesty, and a sense of responsibility. I have two brothers and a younger sister who live in Europe. My house is in the middle of Tehran, north of Tehran. If you have any questions, please ask me before you arrive. I put my phone number in my profile. Also, I am an English language teacher and I have some private students.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To learn about other people's cultures, languages, and cuisines, as well as to make new friends and share our experiences.

Interests

• arts
• writing
• books
• dancing
• seafood
• cooking
• walking
• partying
• traveling
• music
• archeology
• sociology
• cinema
• learning languages
• learning new things
• playing music
• vietnam
• cinematography
• motorcycling
• thailand
• spicy food
• book
• thai food
• walking around
• travelling around the world
• listen music
• litrature
• civil engineering
• book reading
• bookstores
• travelling and meeting new people
• cooking together
• archetecture

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
I listen to all the music of the world, especially folk music, pop, jazz, classical, opera, and traditional Iranian music.
MOVIES
I am particularly interested in films that are artistically produced and directed by directors with their own distinct thinking, ideology, and worldview. But if I were to choose my favourite directors, I would include the following names.
Andrei Tarkovsky (RUS), Federico Fellini (ITA), Krzysztof Kieślowski (POL), Satyajit Ray (IND), Alejandro Jodorowsky (CHL), Luis Buñuel (ESP), Akira Kurosawa (JPN), Zhang Yimou (CHN), Hayao Miyazaki (JPN), Ingmar Bergman (SWE), Stanley Kubrick (USA), Lars von Trier (DNK), Pedro Almodóvar (ESP), Werner Herzog (GER), Roman Polanski (POL), Charles Chaplin (GBR), Bong Joon Ho (KOR), Robert Bresson (FRA), Abbas Kiarostami (IRN), Pier Paolo Pasolini (ITA), Ken Loach (GBR), Yasujirō Ozu (JPN), Béla Tarr (HUN), Hong Sang-soo (KOR), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (GER), Jean Vigo (FRA), Wong Kar Wai (HKG), Kenji Mizoguchi (JPN), Luchino Visconti (ITA), Henri-Georges Clouzot (FRA), Ousmane Sembène (SEN), Zhang Yimou (CHN), Jane Campion (NZL), Víctor Erice (ESP), Sergei Eisenstein (RUS), Kim Ki-duk (KOR), Andrzej Wajda (POL) ...
BOOKS
I read a wide variety of books, but my favourites include novels, sociology, anthropology and archaeology, psychology, and science. If I had to name my favourite authors, I would say these.
NOVELISTS: Leo Tolstoy (RUS), James Joyce (IRL), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (RUS), Franz Kafka (CZE), Marcel Proust (FRA), D. H. Lawrence (GBR), Voltaire (FRA), Vladimir Nabokov (RUS), George Orwell (GBR), Yukio Mishima (JPN), Mario Vargas Llosa (PER), William Faulkner (USA), Dimitri Verhulst (BEL), Milan Kundera (CZE), Nikos Kazantzakis (GRC), Sadegh Hedayat (IRN), Ignazio Silone (ITA)...
SOCIOLOGISTS: Karl Marx (GER), Anthony Giddens (GBR), Émile Durkheim (FRA), Talcott Parsons (USA), Michel Foucault (FRA)...
ANTROPOLOGY and ARCHAEOLOGY: Jared Mason Diamond (USA), Charles Robert Darwin (GBR), Daniel Clement Dennett (USA), Ian Tattersall (GBR), Lewis Dartnell (GBR), Richard Dawkins (GBR), Iana Medvedskaya (RUS), Roman Ghirshman (FRA), Laurence Gardner (GBR),...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Playing the Setar (a main Iranian traditional musical instrument) and giving up smoking.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to prepare Iranian dishes and simple tips on civil and geotechnical engineering, as well as English and Persian languages and also how to play Setar.
I can learn how to prepare your country's food, language and everything you know about that fluently.
I will share with you my experiences from my travels, my expertise.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I share one of the rooms in my house, my home Wi-Fi, my Setar playing, my cooking, etc., with my guests.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Georgia, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Thailand