I wrote about penguin-dotted Boulders Beach near Cape Town for Brides magazine’s roundup of bucket-list beaches.
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Recent Work
The latest from Cape Town, up on Indagare.com this month.
For the design magazine Surface, I interviewed the chef and designer — a pair of brothers — behind one of the funkiest restaurant interiors I’ve ever come across: Hueso, in…
Here it is, in Vogue India’s hot September issue: my favorite story I’ve written for them in the past five years that I’ve been a contributor. I spotlighted eight of…
I love Riga, Latvia! Find out why in the September issue of Condé Nast Traveler.
I spent some time in the bohemian coastal town of Muizenberg for the June/July issue of Excelente, Iberia’s in-flight magazine. I’m also on the Contributors page, talking about my earliest…
I came to this remote outpost in a somewhat random country all because of one hotel. Padaste Manor, on the Estonian island of Muhu, caught my attention in a magazine article years ago, and I finally got the chance to report on the idyllic retreat for the New York Times.
The Lithuanian capital of Vilnius is well worth a visit — here’s my New York Times guide on spending 36 Hours there, accompanied by a cool video.
The most exciting news in Cape Town is the 2017 opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, a cutting edge new art museum constructed in a historic silo building by British starchitect Thomas Heatherwick. I interviewed Heatherwick for Architectural Digest when he was in the city checking in on the construction’s progress.
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.