User:Hurvashtahumvata888

I am a 20-something law student living in Chicago, Illinois of Iranian Zoroastrian background with roots in Tehran and Kerman. My primary interests pertain to political economy, history, the Middle East, Central Asia, philosophy, comics, music and other curious aspects of the human condition.

Favorite Books: Lolita, The Catcher and the Rye, Flaubert's Parrot, The Trial, The Master and Margarita, The Sound and the Fury, Ulysses, The Good Soldier, The Great Gatsby, Underworld, Fight Club, Motherless Brooklyn, Cities of Salt, Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy, The Red and the Black, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Cherry Orchard, The Gay Science, Being and Time, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, In Search of Lost Time, Shahnameh, The Blind Owl

Favorite Movies: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, L'Avventura, The War Trilogy, The Seventh Seal, The Exterminating Angel, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Magnolia, Taxi Driver, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The Godfather, The Dark Knight, The Big Lebowski, The Master, Doubt, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Lawrence of Arabia

Places I've Been To: India, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Indonesia, Singapore, Kenya, Mexico, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Hungary, Greece, Canada, Australia, New Zealand

Languages Spoken: Persian, English, French. Working knowledge of Arabic.