ABOUT ME

Lebanese living in Central America. Medical anthropologist, future doctor. I love travelling (obviously!), hammocks, hitchhiking, languages, photography, books, and so many other things. Most of all I love people and being reminded that really, depite fear-mongering news, we are generally a pretty cool bunch!

Libanesa viviendo en Centroamérica. Antropóloga medica, futura doctora. Me encanta viajar (Obvio!), las hamacas, viajar de aventón (raide/jalón), las idiomas, la fotografía, los libros y muchas otras cosas. Mas que todo me encantan las demás personas, y que me recuerdan que a pesar de noticias que siembran miedo, al fin de cuenta somos todos bastante buena onda!

PHILOSOPHY

Always choose risk over regret, always seek to have your opinions challenged...and never forget to pack one more pair of underwear than you think you'll need!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because, in a world that can often be pretty depressing and full of greed and unkindness, Couchsurfing is where I come to remember all the good things. I have met so many wonderful people, so many friends for life, and had so many amazing experiences!

Interests

Human rights, making friends, live music, banana bread, outrageous travel plans. Those are a few of my favourite things.

Things that are important to me: migration and migrant rights, public health, feminism (intersectional!!!), the Palestinian struggle.

• books
• photography
• human rights
• cooking
• news
• traveling
• music
• live music
• guitar
• anthropology
• teaching
• languages
• medicine
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Mercedes Sosa, Victor Jara, Yasmine Hamdan, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Incorporation, Jack Johnson, Soha, Manu Chao, Fito y Fitipaldis, Fleetwood Mac, Ojos de Brujo, Muchachito, Calle13, Erykah Badu, Lupe Fiasco, Ana Tijoux, Natalia Lafourcade, ChocQuibTown, Ibeyi, Ms. Nina...

Books: The Lacuna, Anna Karenina, His Dark Materials, Peter Pan, Where the Wild Things are, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Como Agua Para Chocolate, Diarios en Motocicleta, everything Eduardo Galeano ever wrote, Edward Said, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Atul Gawande

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been a teacher.

Hitchiked from Guatemala to Mexico.

Fallen in love.

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I do well? Cooking and teaching! I can share my love of both - I will make you cakes! I also ran a kids library for a year so I'm a pretty good storyteller.

Things I would like to learn about? Guitar (and music in general) and medicine (Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and all the other kinds.)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Peru, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cuba, Denmark, France, Guatemala, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

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