Once again, I love to read and I love great conversation. I am into learning about other cultures and ideas. Poetry is also a hobby of mine. I dig T'ang Dynasty China, Spanish, Beat, Persian, and Arabic poetry. I study Arabic often. I have studied Farsi, German, a little Assyrian, Biblical Hebrew, Greek, and ASL. And I love nice sunsets.
Music:
I love the Cure, Morrissey, the Smiths, Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy,Rage Against the Machine,Lenard Cohen, Saul Williams, Pharcyde, the Clash, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance, Henryk Gorecki (Symphony No.3), Talib Kweli, Fela Kuti, Interpol, Hamza El-Din, Fairooz, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sade, Eryka Badu, Steel Pulse, Nina Simone, Rufus Wainwright, Cocteau Twins, Tom Waits,Bob Dylan,The Roots,Haale,Bob Marley,Niyaz,Azam Ali,Low,and much much more.
Movies:
As crazy as it sounds my favorite film is Fiddler On the Roof, and some others are Eternal Sunshine On a Spotless Mind, Paradise Now (Jinna-t Alan),V for Vendetta,Full Metal Jacket,Fight Club,Dr. Strangelove,Amelie, City of Lost Children,Waking Life,To Live, Shrek, Talk to Her, Annie Hall, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Harvey, Star Wars (trilogy), Lord of the Rings (trilogy), the Cradle Will Rock (Not the Hand That Rocked the Cradle!), Sin City, Dreams, The Apu Trilogy, Im Juli, The Birds, Rear Window, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Life of Brian, The Incredibles, Elf, Napoleon Dynamite, Sound of Music, Marry Poppins, The Fifth Element, Singing in the Rain, Baran, Gabbeh, Wizard of Oz, To Kill a Mockingbird, Friday, UHF, American Beauty.
Television:
I really do not watch TV unless it is the news or cartoons.
Books:
Wow! So many but...Welcome to the Desert of the Real and Iraq: the Borrowed Kettle by Slavoj Zizek, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy, Broken Wings by Khalil Jibran,The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, Talmud, the Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides, Zohar: The Book of Splender edited by Gershom Scholem, Midrash, the Qur’an/Koran, Hadiths by Bukhari and Muslim, Sacred Drift: Essays On the Margins of Islam by Peter Lamborn Wilson, the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China by A.C. Graham, the Bhagavad-Gita, Buddhist Sutras, The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong, Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz, Revolution at the Gates: Selected writings of Lenin from 1917 editied by Slavoj Zizek, On Just and Unjust Wars/ State and Revolution/Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin, Black Shirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti, Slavoj Zizek: A critical Introduction by Ian Parker, Anarchism by Daniel Guerin, The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 edited by Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said, Bush in Babylon: the Recolonisation of Iraq by Tariq Ali, The Battle for Saudi Arabia by As’ad AbuKhalil, Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings, A History of Ethiopia by Harold G. Marcus, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch, Comfort Woman by Maria Rosa Henson, My Religion by Helen Keller ( yes the blind and deaf woman), Selected Poems: 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges Selected Poems edited by Alexander Coleman, Siddhartha/Demian by Herman Hesse...I'll stop here.
Heroes:
My mom and all people who stand up for what they feel is right.
