I have a degree in oriental studies (Middle East/Arab world), my education plan actually included Arab language, historical, political and cultural background... but I was a damn student and now going to tight up everything what I've missed by traveling!

My main interests in Arab countries are:
1. historically significant places;
2. ethnical consistency and local cultural peculiarities;
3. urban life and modern places;
4. nature: seasides, deserts, oases and cedar forests in case of Lebanon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To let The World know a bit more about the Russian minorities.

Interests

Currently I am totally absorbed by Yasmina Khadra.

• reading
• painting
• learning new things
• sewing
• riding bicycle
• walking around

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Favorite Movies
The Rabbi's Cat
Shindler's list
Fauda
Dolls by Takeshi Kitano
Incendies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Becoming financially independent at the age of 22, intellectually - 24, emotionally - 26...and staying a child for the rest of my life.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook you the tea of steppe nomads by the original recipe from the great Gengiz Khan conquests ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation