I'm Maziyar, and I'm 48 years old and unmarried. I hold a master's degree in geotechnical engineering and have worked as a site or project manager for numerous big construction companies in Iran and overseas for the past 22 years.

As an inspector and senior supervising engineer of construction, I currently work with the Tehran Construction Engineering Organization, and I also teach English Language privately due to my strong passion in education.

I enjoy traveling and learning about different cultures and people's perspectives, which is why I've visited 48 countries. I have been studying the Setar instrument (a traditional Iranian musical instrument) for 7 years.

I must also state that I am an ATHEIST who does not believe in any religion or god, and that all persons of whatever race and ethnicity, skin color, nationality, language, or gender are respected and make no difference to me. Only honesty and a sense of duty are vital in terms of humanity.

Whatsapp: +989123463992
Telegram: @MaziTiger
Instagram:maziyarr

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To become acquainted with their cultures and philosophies, as well as to demonstrate the culture and customs of my nation in a genuine and honest manner without exaggeration.

Interests

Music, Playing Setar, Movies especially Artestic movies, Books, Having Parties, Travelling, Meeting New People, Sports Especially Tennis and Climbing, Playing Chess, Walking and Running, Cooking, Drinking, Tasting new Foods, Nature, Computer And Softwares, Internet, Science & Technology, Massage, Civil And Geotechniques Engineering....

• animals
• culture
• books
• literature
• photography
• education
• italian food
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• japanese food
• organic food
• running
• working out
• walking
• nightlife
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• socializing
• music
• live music
• backpacking
• kite surfing
• atheism
• sports
• tennis
• engineering
• geography
• history
• tourism
• adventure travel
• beaches
• mountains
• youtube
• food
• brazil
• knowledge
• ocean
• jogging
• learning new languages
• hanging out
• african culture
• african dance

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: I like and listen to all music (from folk and local music to opera and classical music), but I choose them according to my mentaly mood.

MOVIES: I chose which movie to see based on the filmmaker, and my favorite directors are as follows:

Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirokazu Koreeda, Kenji Mizuguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, AND Yasajiro Ozu (Japanese Directors)

Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Céline Sciamma, Claire Denis, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Audiard, Jacques Tati, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Javques Demy, Jean Renoir, Louis Malle, Marcel Carné, Jean Vigo, Patrice Leconte, AND Robert Bresson (French Directors)

Bernardo Bertolucci, Ettore Scola, Federico Fellini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Paolo Sorrentino, AND Mario Monicelli (Italian Directors)

Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda, Dziga Vertov, Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Paweł Pawlikowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, AND Roman Polanski (Polish Directors)

Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Nikita Mikhalkov, AND Sergei Eisenstein (Russian Directors)

Christian Petzold, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Max Ophüls, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, AND Reiner Werner Fassbinder (German Directors)

Caril Reed, Charlie Chaplin, David Lean, Ken Loach, Ken Russell, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Leigh, AND Terence Davies (British Directors)

Buster Keaton, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Altman, Sodney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Wes Anderson, AND Woody Allen (American Directors)

Hong Sang-Soo, Park Chan-Wook, Bong Joon-Ho, Kim Ki-Duk, AND Joon-ik Lee (South-korean Directors)

Hou Hsiao-haien, Ang lee, jia Zhangke, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, AND Zhang Yimou (Chinese Directors)

Bille Auguest, Thomas Vinterberg, Joachim Trier, Susanne Bier, Carl Theodor Dreyer, AND Lars Von Trier (Danish Directors)

Josef von Sternberg, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder AND Michael Haneke (Austrian Directors)

Roy Andersson, Lasse Hallström, Victor Sjöström, Bo Widerberg, AND Ingmar Bergman (Swedish Directors)

Carlos Saura, Isabel Coixet, Julio Medem, Bigas Luna, Pedro Almodóvar, AND Luis Buñuel (Spanish Directors)

AND

Cristian Mungiu & Corneliu Porumboiu (Romanian Filmmakers), Alfonso Cuarón & Michel Franco (Mexican Filmmakers), Hector Babenco & Walter Salles (Brazilian Filmmakers), Rolf de Heer & Peter Weir (Australian Filmmakers), David Cronenberg & Atom Egoyan (Canadian Filmmakers), Yorgos Lanthimos & Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greek Filmmakers), Béla Tarr & István Szabó (Hungrian Filmmakers), Abbas Kiarostami & Bahram Beyzaei (Iranian Filmmakers), Jane Campion (New Zaland Filmmaker), Aki Kaurismäki (Finnish Filmmaker), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai Filmmaker), Emir Kusturica (Bosnian-Serbian Filmmaker) AND Satyajit Ray (Indian Filmmaker)

BOOKS: I also select books based on their subject matter and author. Except for religious and mystical books, I am interested in almost all Humanities, Science, Technology, History, Geography, Novels, Literature, Archeology, Anthropology, Socialogy, Philosophy AND so on, and I read at least two hours per day. For example, numerous books that I have read together with their authors are:

Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace & Rescurrection), Anton Chekhov (All short Stories & The Cherry Orchard), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment & Notes from Underground), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita & Laugher in the Dark), Elif Shafak(The Bastard ot Istanbul & Honour), Aziz Nesin (All Books), Miguel de Servantes (Don Quixote), Gavriel García Màrques (One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera), Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas), Maria Vargas Llosa (The Feast or the Goat), Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore & Men Without Women), Itali Calvino (The Baron in the Trees & Invisible Cities), James Joyce (Ulysses & A Portrait or the Artist as a Young Man), Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Westwrn Front & A Time to Love and a Time to Die), Heinrich Böll (The Clown & Group Portrait with Lady), Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad & The Erasers), Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek), Albert Camus (The Stranger & The fall), Gustave Flaubert (Madam Bovary & Sentimental Education), Honoré de Balzac (Père Goriot & Colonel Chabert), Romain Gary (The Life Before Us & Lady L.), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables & The Last Day of a Condemned Man), Voltaire (Candide & Treatise on Tolerance), Bohumil Hrabal (Too Load a Solitude), Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis & The Castle), Mikan Kundera (All Books), Margaret Atwood (Tha Handmaid's Tale & The Testaments), Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities & The Old Curiosity Shop), George Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm), Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory), Steve Toltz (The Fraction of the Whole), Naguib Mahfouz (Midaq Alley & The Thief and the Dogs), Gibran Khalil Gibran (All Books), Charles Bukowski (Women & Love is a Dog from Hell), Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (All Books), Ernest Hemingway (A Farewall to Arms & Hills Like White Elephants), J. D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye & Franny and Zooey), John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath & Cannery Row).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Registration of three articles in the field of geotechnical engineering and soil reinforcement in prestigious international journals

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH: English Language, Tips on civil engineering, especially soil mechanics, How to prepare some Iranian dishes, Traditional Iranian music, especially how to play the Setar, and How to choose movies to watch and books to read, Also I know massage because I learnt that when i was Thailand.

LEARN: Languages ​​of other countries, How to cook their traditional dishes, if they have a special expertise in a field and so on.

SHARE: Executive experiences in the field of construction projects, My own travels, The Setar playing and Iranian music, The movies I saw, The books I read, The music I listened to, etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Executive experiences in the field of construction projects, English Languge Teaching, My own travel Experiences,, The Setar playing and Iranian music, The movies I saw, The books I read, The music I listened to, My Movie and Ebook Archives, Cooking some Iranian Dishes, ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Iran, Thailand