The new travel site Meridian spotlights a different country in-depth every week. For Brazil’s turn, I contributed a piece on the chic beach town of Búzios.
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Recent Work
This weekend’s New York Times Travel section is a bookworm’s delight — I wrote about two beloved bookstores in Kalk Bay, South Africa.
I profiled celebrated fine-art photographer Jackie Nickerson for Surface magazine’s Art issue.
I flew to Durban last weekend to cover the inaugural Essence Festival Durban for Travel + Leisure, and I wrote two pieces on the event.
For Condé Nast Traveler’s monthly Hotel Breakfasts page, I wrote about the stunning farm-to-table spread at Babylonstoren, in South Africa.
My latest story for Architectural Digest: a look at the futuristic new Asilia Highlands safari camp in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater region.
My first story for the brand-new magazine Centre is a feature on the buzziest new restaurant in Cape Town: the Shortmarket Club.
I woke up to some great news this morning: my New York Times feature “7 Days, 1500 Miles in Namibia” was awarded a Society of American Travel Writers Foundation Lowell Thomas Award.
Another hit in Turkey — my story on shopping in Cape Town was translated into Turkish for the October issue of Condé Nast Traveller Turkey.
Awards & Books
Awards
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2021: Honorable mention for the Grand Award, Travel Journalist of the Year
- South Asian Journalists Association, 2021: Outstanding Arts and Culture Reporting for “Zanzibar in the Rain,” New York Times
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2020: Bronze in Short Work on Travel for “Raise the Roof,” Condé Nast Traveler
- South Asian Journalists Association, 2019: Outstanding Arts, Culture, and Lifestyle Reporting about South Asia for “Force of Nature,” Surface magazine
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2018: Gold award in US/Canada Travel for “A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis,” New York Times
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2018: Bronze in Service-Oriented Consumer Work for “My Town,” Virtuoso Life
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2017: Gold in Culinary-Related Travel for “Eating Bunny Chow in Durban,” Saveur
- South Asian Journalists Association, 2017: Outstanding Arts and Culture Reporting for “Eating Bunny Chow in Durban,” Saveur
- North American Travel Journalists Association Awards, 2016: Two Silver awards in Destination Travel and Adventure Travel for “7 Days, 1500 Miles in Namibia,” New York Times
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2016: Gold in Foreign Travel for “7 Days, 1500 Miles in Namibia,” New York Times
- Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, 2015: Gold in Personal Comment for “Returning to Hyderabad, Once a Land of Princes and Palaces,” New York Times
- Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing, 2013: Silver in Most Unforgettable Character for “Spitting Distance in Jodhpur,” Wall Street Journal
Books
- New York Times Cultured Traveler: Contributed a feature on Bosnia & Herzegovina to this upcoming anthology
- Best American Travel Writing 2021: “City of Saints” from Travel + Leisure was selected for the 2021 edition of this anthology, edited by Padma Lakshmi and Jason Wilson
- New York Times 36 Hours World: 150 Cities from Abu Dhabi to Zurich: Contributed 36 Hours guides to Johannesburg and Mumbai for this anthology
- My Life Abroad: A Selection of Expat Stories: Contributed to this compilation of expat stories from around the globe, recounting my experience as an American in South Africa, in the chapter “From New York City to Cape Town.”
- The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35: Contributed my essay “When Coconuts Attack” to this travel anthology.