Hello, I'm Tom, seasoned traveler from Norway traveling with Nazanin, from Iran. She's into the arts, studied acting , writes and plays the theater. I myself am traveling for photography's sake. These days we're traveling the Kurdish parts of Iran/Turkey/Iraq.

Should be nice meeting great people along the way!

ig: tomtomwithlove

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Whether it's travel in the arts, the literature or the real world, travel is ultimately that which helps us see life in a new way. As someone who's been on the road for a number of years: There are indeed quite a few ways to look at the world. Popular belief to the contrary, the world is still very much a wild jungle.

Couchsurfing help facilitate great experiences with great people. We like getting off the tourist circuit and spend our time with people in their place.

Interests

Immersing myself in different cultures photographing local life, trying to learn their perspectives of the world; Ethnography, anthropology.

I am almost always interested in conversations about life and the world we live in. As the famous story goes; blind men were asked by the sadist king to each touch a different part of the elephant; only to end up fighting when they couldn't agree what the elephant was.

My foremost passion is photography and so I'm always looking to photograph people in their place

Cooking is fun. I watched some movies and read some books.

• literature
• photography
• politics
• hiking
• anthropology
• philosophy
• trekking

Music, Movies, and Books

Nazanin is reading Camus and is a fan of Shams and Rumi.

Reading/read:
- The Making and Mirroring of Masculine Subjectivities, Susan Mooney
- Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell; Toril Moi
- The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington
- The Nix, Nathan Hill
- The Castle, Franz Kafka
- The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke
- From the Tree to the Labyrinth, Umberto Eco
- Mapping Ideology, Slavoj Zizek
- Revolution of the Mind The Life of Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotto
- Sontag, Benjamin Moser
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson

Russian realism shall always have a place in my heart.

Movies: Bergman, Tarkowski, Tarantino, Jia Zhangke, Majid Majidi and Countless others.

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography.
Boxing
I know a few chords on guitar and piano. So jamming is always a possibility(but don't expect much).

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook great Italian food, and maybe some other things.

A conversation. Time, attention. A portrait?

Raised to leave a place the way we found it

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Iran, Norway, Thailand