isafakir Isa fakir

Resum del perfil

http://www.tiwiguide.com/ http://www.facebook.com/isafakirOutside the Box. Out and Proud. social entrepreneur photographer media~PR consultancy, linguistics, education, and Middle East.see more of me at facebook and w2s:http://isafakir.multiply.com/http://isafakir.multiply.com/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=715279807also these w2 dot coms and dot orgs:http://www.internations.org/users/profile_general/8409http://isafakir.hi5.com/http://zplanet.hi5.com/http://isafakir.myplaxo.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/isafakir/http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=7365673204018556721over-educated, well~travelled, (and somewhat shopworn), make great tea, and passable noodles and interesting omelets. Was a cowboy/stable hand in the 50s. a restaurateur in the 60s(hippy restaurant). a taxi driver and also a FIFA referee in the 70s. a bakery manager and trainer of homeless in a Zen bakery in the 80s. and an expat since 1986. photographer, writer, haibun(haikuist), journalist (sports), story teller.educator, activist, involved, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, ex-pat, LIBERAL, interested in AT(appropriate technology) IT(intermediate technology), access, democracy, international solutions to the global crisis we face as a species. [disabled veteran active in counseling and survivorship groups] Licenced FIFA referee(retired). Trauma/PTSD/abuse/crisis intervention specialist. degrees in anthropology( minor in comparative literature), linguistics and applied linguistics. curriculum. certificates in psychiatric social work/counseling/crisis intervention, in meteorology[from the USAF], in graphics marketing, in 19th Century photographic technologies.http://www.change.org/profile/view_profile?user_id=5948

Llengües que parlo

• Anglès ^{Llengua materna}
• Alemany ^Expert
• Turkish ^Expert
• Francès ^Principiant
• Àrab ^Principiant
• Rus ^{Només puc dir "Benvingut!"}

Els meus interessos

Aficions:

right now an active member of DEMsAbroad http://www.change.org/profile/view_profile?user_id=5948http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx?xid=18352107236454026386life, breathing, learning, traveling, languages, communities. Human rights and social justice. Ecology. Politics. Children's rights.

Llibres:

http://isafakir.multiply.com/sciences, linguistics, cultures, evolution of mind and language and culture, economics, literature, spiritual sciences, tasawwuf, zen, haiku, history, social history, gender and queer studies. Human rights and social justice. Our Lady of the Flowers(genet) Road up North (bassho) Kobayashi Issa, R H Blyth, John R Walker, Dashiell Hammett, Fahruddin Attar, Washington Irving, Will James.

Música:

hate pop. live and love everything else, Bach, Monk, Coltrane, Johnny Cash, bluegrass, traditional gospel, nasheed, Yunus Emre's illahi, ashk, zikr, shakuhachi, Jussi Bjorling, Mozart, mdelta and chicago blues, African jazz, Kurdish and North African music. Indian and South Asian music (not Bollywood), dorothy's children,

Pel·lícules:

Brokeback, Spongebob, Voyna i Mir, Priscilla of the Dessert, Mysterious Skin, Blazing Saddles, Unforgiven, Johnny Depp, anything by Eastwood, Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, AI, Schindler's List, The Ring Trilogy, Star Drek, Star Warz, Buffy, Syriana. Nanook. Metropolis.

Organitzacions de les quals formo part:

Am Anthro Assoc, Am Assoc for the Advancement of Science, ACLU, CETEFL-L, Global Learn Day, MOPH, Trauma Professionals, Gay Vets, a whole host of veterans, survivors, civil rights, gay rights, and literary and artistic organizations http://www.change.org/profile/view_profile?user_id=5948

Experiències de viatge

Viatges que he fet:

north and south america, western europe, mediterannean, middle east. Drove throughout all of Turkey. Drove throughout all of Saudi Arabia. Drove from Muscat to Istanbul and back again 3 times, visiting everything! Haji twice. Umrah a half a dozen times. Never been west of kansas. Cowboyed in Oklahoma. WORST trip ever: Greyhound bus from San Antonio to Enid Oklahoma. Most lost trip ever: To Nuevo Loredo: total blank, don't remember anything. Cruised the Amazon Valley jungles and swamps, west of Manaus in 1957. hiked across the Kackar Mts. to Artvin in 1991-92-93. 3rd class train from Lourdes to Madrid in 1956, and by car to Toledo. Orient Express. Slowest trip ever: Istanbul to Konya by train, 1988. Most hateful trip: Air France with a layover at Charles DeGaulle. If I never go to Paris again, it will be too soon. Friendliest most interesting: Dhank, Dead Sea, Neversink, Tiwi, Strangest trip: a sesshin in Rochester and the only room I could get was in a gay bath house. Zen all day. Disco all night.

Viatges que tinc pensats fer:

Oman. The Catskill Mts, New York Upstate. the world, more exactly, soon I'll need to go to the USA, to Switzerland, on business... north africa? The Holy Land, Palestine, Jordan and Oman as soon as i can as well. Philadelphia maybe.

Grups

Comunicacions de BW

i have hoped bw would have outdistanced the others by now. so far i've had only one bw guest since i joined bw, where i used to see 2 or 3 every week. overall i had hundreds before from hc and cs and before that before internet, i always had international guests from all kinds of networks i belonged to. i believe in the idea of hosting. it's a fundamental human instinct honored by aristotle as one of the major virtues, magnaminity, large heartedness. so, you've done your best, i am sure... maybe one more head can't hurt. i am a writer photographer experienced in pr and fundraising for ngos, maybe i can be of use

Voluntaris Locals

I asked to join this group before i asked to join any others. I have a good track record of helping people in need, and have been a "local volunteer" wherever I have lived since 1965. In Philadelphia in the 60s, I organized a communal food co-op, and housing co-op, and in the 70s and 80s worked with homeless and disabled and refugees, have certificates/training in crisis intervention counseling and trauma/abuse counselling. Am a member of the Trauma professional on-line association. and so on. Grew up in a house always full with guests all over the world, and have always lived that way since.

Cuiners

i do a lot of cooking and it is something i do well and i am proud of it

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