LDN 🇬🇧 ✈️ Beirut 🇱🇧 02/07 - 08/08
أحتاجك أن تساعدني في ممارسة العربية
New to Lebanon. Need friends to watch the World Cup with 🤓
Necesito practicar mi español!

Let's revel in our existential crises. Traveller looking for an intellectual challenge. Love different accents, languages, cultures. Educate me with your presence.

Let’s meet up if you have a passion to make a positive impact on society or debating ideas: politics, economics, philosophy & Chomsky

“Traveling, it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

If I’m not responsive message me on SC: mahdimk

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet and learn from interesting people :)

Interests

• cheese
• politics
• skiing
• badminton
• economics
• languages
• philosophy
• food
• arabic
• spanish
• challenges
• magnum ice cream

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Political, political rap and hip-hop, arabic, french, spanish, pop, reggae ton, Immortal Technique, Akala, Lowkey, J Balvin, Nicky Jam, Maluma, foreign-language music in general

Movies: Pretty much anything good, Scorsese, Tarantino, Godfather, Interstellar, DiCaprio, Denzel, Al Pacino, De Niro, Russell Crowe, Narcos, GoT, Vikings, Brooklyn 9-9, El Dorado, Mulan, Tarzan.

Books: TKAMB, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Hamid Dabashi, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Tariq Ali

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed Kilimanjaro (and won a race against a porter)

Teach, Learn, Share

Intellectual discussions: MENA, political, economic, philosophical, justice, human rights, el tercer mundo, el media oriente, race and social identities in global politics etc.
Language Exchange: English and Arabic
Experiences: travelled to over 30 countries

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Jordan, United Kingdom, United States