CURRENT MISSION

I exist only when I travel... The rest is just routine...

ABOUT ME

a passionate dreamer who loves to:
wander, wonder,
discover, uncover,
travel, learn,
joke, tease,
laugh, ponder,
love, admire,
talk, discuss,
sing, marvel,
cook, savor,
live to remember...

PHILOSOPHY

Sharing what my countrymen SAINT AUGUSTINE (354-430 AD) once said: "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

I think I read few pages… not bad… 🥴

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I will be very happy to meet travelers and exchange ideas or give them insights on things to do in LA or other places I have been to...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I was introduced to CS when I was traveling in Iran... it definitely turned to be an amazing way to meet people and experience their day to day life wherever I was traveling... I think also It is a great way to make new friends from different parts of the world... and I can say that I succeeded in doing so!.. Right?

Interests

+ Traveling, Traveling and Traveling...
+ People, their cultures and philosophies...
+ Wild Animals (especially our dear cousins) and Cats in general...
+ Ancient History, Archeology
+ Arts (Photography, Cinema, Theatre, World Music...)
+ Sciences and Discoveries
+ oh definitely Good Food and Good Wine! I love cooking and creating delicacies...

Music, Movies, and Books

1st Art: Le Louvre (Paris), Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles), Pantheon (Rome), Machu Picchu (Cusco), Umayyad Mosque (Damascus), Alcazar (Toledo), Temple of Jupiter (Baalbek), Kinkaku-ji (Kyoto), Punic Ports (Carthage); Saadian Tombs (Marrakech), Sultan Al-Ghuri Complex (Cairo), Kremlin (Moscow), Great Mosque (Kairouan), Nova Most (Bratislava), Shah-i-Zinda (Samarkand), Temple I (Tikal), Chehel Sotoun (Isfahan), Zenkov Cathedral (Almaty), Burj Khalifa (Dubai), Templo Mayor (Mexico City) and many more handmade creations that penetrated my soul
2nd Art: Victory of Samothrace (Louvre), Sculpture on the Discoveries (Lisbon), The River (New York), Auguste Rodin (Le Baiser), Amida Buddha in Kamakura, Louis Ernest Barrias (Les Premieres Funerailles), Theodore Riviere (Brodeuse Tunisienne)
3rd Art: Jallel Ben Abdallah, Victor Sarfati, Gustave Courbet (L'Origine du Monde, Le Sommeil), Edgar Degas (Repasseuses), Jean-Leon Gerome (Pollice Verso), Leon Belly (Pelerins allant a la Mecque), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (La Grande Odalisque), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Le dejeuner des Canotiers), Eugene Delacroix (La Mort de Sardanapale), Frederic Leighton (Flaming June), Edwin Long (The Babylonian Marriage Market), Various paintings in Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan and so many representations that stuck in my mind
4th Art: The God: Mozart; The Goddess: Om Kalthum and Few Immortals: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Anouar Brahem, Charles Aznavour, Philip Glass, Kudsi Erguner, Sonia M'Barek, Ravi Shankar, still many more notes and voices that continue to uplift my spirit
5th Art: Abul el Kacem Chebbi (Iradat al-Hayet), Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat), Amine Maalouf (Leon l'Africain, Samarcande), Ibn Khaldun (Al-Muqaddima), Faysal Bey (La Derniere Odalisque)...
6th Art: Fadhel Jaibi, Pina Bausch, Jan Fabre, Twyla Tharp...
7th Art: Dangerous Liaisons, Il Nome dela Rosa, Khan El-Khalili, Bayn Al-Qasrayn, La Reine Margot, The Others, The Sea Inside, Un Baiser s'il Vous Plait, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Conviction, Carlos, Copie Conforme, Contracorriente, Le Moine,... and more images on the screens to be remembered
8th Art: Will & Grace, Globe Trekker, Choufli Hall; Photos, Photos, Photos all photographic shots taken by each one of us!...
9th Art: Asterix...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

+ Feeling so small standing in front of natural or manmade wonders and reconnecting with the time when I first learned about them as a small kid...
+ Connecting with people wherever I go...
+ Sleeping on top of a tree in the middle of a jungle in Uganda and watching elephants drink at night...
+ Spending time with Mountain Gorillas in their own environment in Rwanda...
+ Swimming with sharks..., turtles..., sea lions..., rays..., dolphins... and so many colorful fish... in so many seas, oceans, rivers and lakes...
+ Camping... among wild animals in East Africa..., in the Sahara Desert on New Year's Eve..., while canoeing along the Green River..., deep in majestic Havasupai..., on the edges of Kilauea under Pele's watch..., while lost in Baja California...
+ Meandering along vestiges of the Silk Road (see selected photos in 'My Website' section)... reliving the glories of the heydays of the Islamic World and the devastation brought by the marching Mongols!
+ Climbing Gunung Rinjani in Lombok... my knees still hurt, but my heart is still throbbing from the beauty I saw once I reached the summit...
+Totally drenched by the sheer flow of water from Iguazu Falls...
+Being enchanted every day of my one-month stay by the splendors of the most fascinating place on Earth: India
+Flying over the Himalayas and seeing Mt Everest upclose...
+ Setting foot on the 7th continent and appreciating the meaning of life on this desert of ice and snow...
+ Demystifying the mysteries of the Moais and feeling the unicity of Rapa Nui...
+ Working for Greenpeace...
+ Fox hunting with Eagle Hunters on the hills of Bayan Ulgii in western Mongolia, with snow-caped mountains reflecting their beauty on the lakes below and a temperature reaching -10 degrees Celsius ( thankfully the fox caught run away unharmed)...
+ Climbing the Khongor sand dune in the Gobi Desert...
+ Being able to visit the ´Happiest’ country: Bhutan… and it is definitely a ‘happy’ place to be in…
+ Visiting Iraq and discovering its riches, it’s deep history and the beauty of its people …
+Discovering hospitality and pure goodness in Sudan… just before the war and human madness hit… very sad…

Teach, Learn, Share

Experiences in life
TEACH what I know
LEARN what you know
SHARE what they do not want us to know...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Antarctica, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo Verde, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, France, French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Martin (French part), Serbia, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Tunisia, United States

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