CURRENT MISSION

Find home.

ABOUT ME

Lora: Human rights activist, writer, grad student.

Edward: Artist, video and film maker.

We're living between Ramallah and Paris for the next two years.

PHILOSOPHY

Ne travailler jamais.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For the moment, we are subletters with a strict no-guests clause in the contract. Hopefully this will change soon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Fantastic first stay in Berlin.

Interests

literature, photography, art, web design, human rights, travel, the new and the weird, technology, walking, yoga

• arts
• writing
• literature
• design
• photography
• human rights
• cooking
• yoga
• walking
• technology
• traveling
• knitting

Music, Movies, and Books

Trouble Every Day, The Tenant, Three Colors: Blue, Divine Intervention, Battle in Heaven, The Idiots, Tropical Malady, Malcolm X, Belle de Jour, Pierrot la Fou, Funny Games 1, Last Tango in Paris, Vivre sa Vie, Amadeus, Shoot the Piano Player, La Bamba, Thelma & Louise, Hunger, Tokyo!

Erin McKeown, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Liars, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Books, Fourtet, Vampire Weekend, Mazen Kerbaj, Zoe Keating, Sufjan Stevens, White Stripes, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Lhasa

A Little Matter of Genocide, The Wretched of the Earth, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Satanic Verses, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Inferno, One Country, Bukowski, Cortazar, Bataille, Giovanni, Truth and Beauty, Autobiography of a Face, Imagined Communities, Blow-Up, Eden Eden Eden, Seasons of Migration to the North, Dear Mr. Kawabata, Sun on a Cloudy Day

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Reaching the top of Setti Fatma in Morocco at sunset

Teach, Learn, Share

Writing, English, French, Arabic, knitting, video editing, photography, cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Israel, Lebanon

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