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Overview

  • 1 reference
  • Fluent in Arabic, English, French, Italian; learning German, Swahili
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2013
  • Masters Student
  • Designer
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

I'm overly competitive and most of the time a sore loser.
Ice cream is usually the solution.

I can't get myself to memorise all types of clouds yet again never actually tried that hard.

I can pack my backpack in 7min tops.

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." Helen Keller

Interests

Probably any adventure in the great outdoors (hiking- climbing - camping - diving..etc) - architecture - history - geography and culture

I also love meeting new people, getting to know different cultures and showing my city to others.

A short list of things I'd like to do:
- backpack through South America
- horseback ride in Kazakhstan
- retire in Italy

Music, Movies, and Books

Not my ultimate favourites but some I've enjoyed in my lifetime:

Movies:
Grand Budapest Hotel // Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind // La Giovinezza // Red Turtle // Io Sono Amore // Pulp Fiction // Django Unchained // Iron Jawed Angels

Books:
The Stranger - Albert Camus // Call of the Wild - Jack London // An Unnecessary Woman - Riad Alameddine // Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton // Animal Farm - George Orwell // Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak // Mrs. Hemingway - Naomi Woods // Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry // The Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton // Overcrowded - Roberto Verganti // Koolaids - Riad Alameddine

My List of books for the rest of this year:
Never Split the Difference - Chriss Voss // Emotional Agility - Susan David // Collective Disruption - Michael Docherty // Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman // Figuring - Maria Popova

Message me for reviews:)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked up to the highest peak in the Levant area and camped there for the night - Backpacked across Italy - Kayaked the southern coast of Portugal - Kissed a giraffe!! - Survived white water rafting on the Nile river in Uganda (trust me that's an accomplishment)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Lebanese; how to master three languages in one sentence!

I can also ramble on and on about most types of rocks and plants

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some meals from the world's best two cuisines: Lebanese and Italian - nom nom

An intense game of Mikado and/or Jenga

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Switzerland, United States

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