I'd like to meet:
My two favorite old men:
Zahi Hawass
and
Tariq Ali
Music:
Manu Chao, Antony and the Johnsons, Soapkills, Abdel Halim Hafez, The Cure, Zemeken, Neshez, Beirut.
Television:
Star Trek: TNG, The History Channel, Conan O'Brien, Rome, Family Guy, Simpsons, Firefly.
Books:
The Arabian Nights by anonymous, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, Blankets by Craig Thompson, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, No god but God by Reza Aslan, Itsudemo Aeru by Mariko Kikuta, Layla and Majnun by Nezami, The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World by Hugh Kennedy, anything by Nizar Qabbani, anything by Jhumpa Lahiri, anything by Naguib Mahfouz.