Interests

• books
• graphic design
• meditation
• reading
• teaching
• history
• mathematics
• solo travel
• cinema
• nature
• programming
• stars
• seaside
• rain
• sunsets
• meaningful conversation

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Instrumental

Books:
Little Prince (my all time favorite)
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, & When the Mountains Echoed (Khalid Hussaini)
The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, & Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho)
The Stranger & Fall (Albert Camus)
1984 & Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Americanah (Chimmamanda)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)
When Nietzsche Wept (Irvin D. Yalom)
Homo Sapiens (Harari)
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
White Nights (Dostoevsky)
Someone I Loved (Anna Gavalda)
Letter to a Child Never Born (Oriana Fallaci)
Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
Symphony of the Dead (Abbas Maroufi)
Pieces of a Coherent Whole (Pouneh Moghimi)

Movies & Series:
Schindler’s List
Good Will Hunting
Scent of a Woman
The Shawshank Redemption
The Truman Show
Green Book
Oppenheimer
Dead Poet Society
The Grave of Fireflies
The Zone of Interest
Lost in Translation
The Help
Silenced
Poor Things
Detachment
A Separation

Friends
Shrinking
Ted Lasso
The Queen’s Gambit
This is Us

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-It’s been two years since I deleted all my social media and stepped away from the online world.

- completed a 10-day Vipassana meditation course, maintaining complete silence for the whole period, staying at the center and meditating from 9-11 hours a day.

Countries I’ve Visited

Pakistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran