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Overview

  • 86 references 49 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Arabic, Arabic (North Levantine), Hebrew (modern), Persian (Farsi), Tigrinya
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2005
  • No occupation listed
  • Psychology, Arabic, and migration studies
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

I'm a multidisciplinary artist focusing my work and research on themes of identity, alterity, and their borderlands. I started my training in theatre before pursuing studies in fields of psychology, Arabic, and migrations. I now divide most of my time between Canada and Palestine.

I want to explore what is most intimate and most foreign in us and play with the threads that link them together; look for the plurality and diversity within ourselves and each other.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hospitality is precious. I believe it is through it that a good community and society can be built and evolve, I feel it needs to be cultivated and spread.

"To live free and single like a tree and in fraternity like a forest/this longing is ours." - Nazim Hikmet

Interests

constructions and deconstructions, decolonization, migrations, identity, memory, time, space, languages, arabic, words, poetry, corporeality and immateriality, body, dancing, theatre, resistance, letting go, streets, walking, hiking, desert, storms, love, wine...

  • poetry
  • dancing
  • walking
  • languages

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Romania, Serbia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Palestine, United States

Old School Badges

  • 27 Vouches
  • Montreal Collective

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