Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to visit other countries, to visit the cities, monuments, but also to enter in the country's culture and way of life. I think Couchsurfing is a wonderful mean to meat people of all over the world, to discover their culture, their traditions, the way they think and see the world.

Interests

I am Armenian, with my family being native of Istanbul. Therefore I am very interested in all things that concern middle eastern countries, and in particular Iran.
I am very interested in history, literature, geopolitics.
I love music, particularly classical and operas.
I appreciate a lot to hang out in parties or in bars, or going out in restaurants.

• arts
• culture
• partying
• music
• hunting
• archeology
• geopolitics
• history
• medicine
• social science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Baroque music (JP Rameau, Charpentier, Haendel...), Rachmaninov, Wagner... I like also certain oriental musics (Indian, Fayrouz, Asmahan, Sayat Nova...), and jazz.
My favorite moovies are: The cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), A flex meters cube of love (Jamshid Mahmoodi), Shinning, Apocalypse now, a thousand and one night (Pasolini), Usual Suspect, the films of Orson Welles, La bataille d'Algers (Pontecorvo)
Books: Voyage au bout de la nuit (Céline), Dune, Satyricon (Petronius), 1984 (George Orwell), Salambô (Flaubert), Pierre Bourdieu: Sur la télévision, Orientalims (Edward Said), Naked Lunch (W Burrough),The blind owl (Sadegh Hedayat)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Go hunting wild pings with Iranian-Armenians in the mountains after meeting them in a party for the independence of Armenia in Iran

What I Can Share with Hosts

Showing Paris, sharing about our different cultures, having a good pizza o a good beer!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France