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Overview

  • 36 references 30 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic (North Levantine), English, French, Spanish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • freelance journalist
  • geography & political science
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to help and understand

ABOUT ME

I'm a political science post graduate turned journalist, currently living between Iraq, France and Nicaragua (please, ask why, I'll explain).... but never really stopped moving around. If you get lucky enough, you'll catch me in my hometown, or at your place where I might be nearby.
I have a keen interest in many subjects that stretch from middle eastern politics to botany.

PHILOSOPHY

''Do not do onto other what you do not wish them to do to you''

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

be glad to host, meet, or help anyone!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

several hosting & surfing experiences + great trips with CS members in Québec (Mont Tremblant and Québec-ville) as well as in Ilha Grande in Brasil, plus chilling with the amazing CS scene in Sulaymanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan :) .

Interests

politics, history, philosophy, botany, environment, language and many more...

  • environment
  • politics
  • surfing
  • swimming
  • history
  • political science
  • science

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, I recall one really cool experience, something unforgetable, apart for all the hicking, and that's swimming in a sea at night with phosphorescent plancton. As we would move the water, they would gloom even more. When we would throw a stone in the dark ocean, it would turn into an electric firework in the night. It was with my buddy Sam, in the Indian Ocean, on the shore of Oman, close to the city of Quriyat
Oh, and a second cool experience, was in Lebanon, swimming with a turtle next to Batrun in the Mediterranean! Awesome moment

Teach, Learn, Share

We will get to this when we meet :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

my house if they are visiting, plus time to visit around.
I'f I'm at yours, I'd be happy to talk about your life and country.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Palestine, Philippines, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, Oman, Philippines, United Arab Emirates

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