ABOUT ME

Hi all, my name is Mohamed Hashem, and am 43 years old, from Egypt. I am a freelance writer, journalist, novelist and film critic. I have a number of published books on cinema, arts and some novels in Arabic language, and a hundred of articles about all kind of arts, museums, philosophy and book reviews.

PHILOSOPHY

Write something worth reading Or do something worth writing about.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Usually, I use hotels during my trips, but after long years I decided to use another way that could be more intimacy than hotels, that makes me make friends and meet new people and have a lot of houses and families around the world.
But, after using a very well known websites through it you can rent a room or share a flat by paying money, I discovered that most of people, though they were quite friendly and welcoming and and and, but at the end you are for them a mere person who rented and payed money, that's all.
And, when you try to be in touch or contact with them later, as a friends, you find out the real truth. So, I'm here trying hard to find new real friends seeking for good persons and true friendship after hosting me, though, i have to say that i didn't sent till this moment too much requests, just 2 or 3 since i've been here, because i'm usually due to my work stay for long time, 10 days at least, and it's not possible for sure and it's very hard for me to move on every couple of days to another flat while i have to work and attending movies etc, but i hope to be hosted soon when i have free time to spend as a vacation :)
Thanks a lot for reading my words, sorry for annoying anyone, wish you all the best.

Interests

Books.
Cinema.
Music.
History.
Cooking.
Learning.
Making new experiences.
New people.
Traveling.

• arts
• writing
• books
• cooking
• wine
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• freelancing
• history
• journalism
• good beer

Music, Movies, and Books

First of all, A Great number of European movies for great directors, and of course other cinemas (For Ex., Ozu and Kurosawa), especially auteur cinema.....
All great writers, such as Julio Cortazar, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kwabata, Pruost, Paul Auster, Paul bowles, Hemingway, Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, Kundera, Saramago J. L. Borges, J. M. Coetzee, Gabriel García Márquez V. S. Naipaul, witold Gombrowicz, Robert Musil, Italo Calvino, Nietzsche, Pierre Bourdieu, Deleuze, Emil Cioran, Jack Kerouac, Fernando Pessoa, Theodor w. Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, Yeats, Derrida, Todorov, Baudrillard,Foucault,Kierkegaard, Kante and so on.....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Italy, Poland