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Overview

  • 6 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Arabic, Italian
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • I am currently working in a NGO in Lebanon
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working and learning every day to achieve a better life and make a fairer world.

ABOUT ME

Currently working with an NGO in Lebanon as WASH Head of Project. I studied History, International Cooperation Master and Water, Hygiene and Sanitation in international cooperation (WASH) postgraduate.

I like reading, movies, music, partying, going to the countryside, the mountains and all kinds of sports.

I love politics as a struggle for emancipation and staff to improve the living conditions of people. I do not like political parties or violence. I'm not religious.

Traveling is what I am happy, knowing other worlds, other realities and people you can always learn.

I am responsible, but also a bit crazy and disaster. Like everything, happiness is in the middle.

I would welcome people funny, intelligent, eager to know the city but also to meet people.

As one Spanish writer says: "Fascism is cured by reading and racism is cured by traveling."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to share, to learn and to meet new people, cultures, minds and points of view.

Interests

To find the way to change myself to change the world.

"Learn as you will live forever, and Live as you will die tomorrow"

  • writing
  • partying
  • politics
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • cycling
  • sports
  • history
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Fight Club, Trainspotting, Snatch, Big Fish, Amelie, Land and Freedom, The Constant Gardener, The Departed, El Milagro de P.Tinto, Diarios de una motocicleta, Airbag, Joyeux Nöel, Juno, The life of Brian, The Mononoke Princess.

Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Hiyao Miyazaki, Jean Pièrre Jeunet, Emir Kusturica, Amenábar, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, Alejandro González Iñarritu....
Music: Rock, Punk, Punk-Rock,Reggae, Ska, Spanish music, fusion music...

Writers: José Saramago, Eduardo Galeano, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Gabriel García Márquez, Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Trotsky, Piotr Kropotkin, Noam Chomsky, Homer, J.J. Rousseau, Nietzsche,Gerarld Brenan, J.J.R. Tolkien...

Books: Cien años de soledad, 1984, The conquest of bread, Las venas abiertas de América Latina, The Spanish Labyrinth, The count of Montecristo...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

To be in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid the 15-M, occupying the streets and claming for real democracy in Spain!

Downhill biking the Death Road in Bolivia!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Cameroon, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, South Sudan, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cuba, Lebanon, Spain

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