Whether it's travel in the arts, the literature or the real world, travel is ultimately that which helps us see life in a new way. There are indeed quite a few ways to look at the world. Popular belief to the contrary, the world is still very much a wild jungle. Anyway, Couchsurfing help facilitate experiences with people on the inside. We like getting off the tourist circuit and spend time with people in their place.

Nazanin is reading Camus and is a fan of Shams and Rumi. Reading/read: - The Making and Mirroring of Masculine Subjectivities, Susan Mooney - Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell; Toril Moi - The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington - The Nix, Nathan Hill - The Castle, Franz Kafka - The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke - From the Tree to the Labyrinth, Umberto Eco - Mapping Ideology, Slavoj Zizek - Revolution of the Mind The Life of Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotto - Sontag, Benjamin Moser - Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson Russian realism will always have an affinity to my heart. Movies: Many to choose from, for example Altman, Bergman, Tarkowski, Thomas Anderson, Jia Zhangke, Majid Majdi. Music: My first real discovery of music was with Metallica at the age of 13. Since then I've grown into more of an omnivore.