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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Figure out whether I want my life to be bound by Nietzsche's weight of eternal recurrence or Kundera's lightness of being
ABOUT ME
I come from Bahrain, a small island in the Persian Gulf. I'm half Arab half Filipino. I'm currently an undergraduate student at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. I'm a creative writer. I participated in International Writing Program: Between The Lines. I'm very interested in LGBTQ issues, especially in the Middle East.
PHILOSOPHY
My current struggle is whether to choose Nietzsche's heaviness or Kundera's lightness, and if possible, perhaps reach a synthesis.
Interests
Reading, writing, learning languages, meeting interesting people, sketching and traveling. I especially love learning about history, philosophy, religions and LGBTQ issues.
- writing
- sketching
- reading
- traveling
- history
- languages
- religion
Music, Movies, and Books
I can go on forever (really) but as for books: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Khaled Hosseini's novels, Virginia Woolf's writings, The Little Prince, The Apology, Cloud Atlas, The poems of Richard Siken, the poems of Mahmoud Darwish. Some of my favourite movies: The Hours, Babel, Biutiful, Hala'a La Wein?, and Mysterious Skin. I love listening to Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Clint Mansell, Coldplay, Florence and the Machines, Ellie Goulding, Birdy, Bon Iver, Lisa Gerrard and Fairouz.
Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Bahrain, United Kingdom, United States