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Chris

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm in Syria studying Arabic. Wish me luck. If I have the the balls I will be traveling to Israel to take brief dips into Western culture...Next year in Damascus!Wanna meet me in the Middle East?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Rami Makhlouf

Music:

the get up kids, the anniversary, David Bowie, Jimmy cliff, peter tosh, arab pop, mirah, sparta, josh rouse, cat stevens,George Clinton, Billie Holiday,the mars volta, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, The Strokes, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, Belle and Sebastian...

Movies:

The Battle of Algiers,Dr. Strangelove, Office Space, the big lebowski, American Psycho, rushmore, the royal tanenbaums, Fast times at ridgemont high, Fidel by Estela Bravo, barfly

Books:

James and the giant peach, Immanuel Wallerstein, Edward said, 1984, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Brett Easton Ellis, The John Lee Anderson biography of Guevara, Joseph Stiglitz, Augusten Boroughs

Heroes:

Bertrand Russell, Lawson Bowling, Cesar Chavez, Alfaro Siquieros, The Men of Operation Jonathan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe) , James Baldwin.