Salaam! My name is Shaan Shaikh, and I'm a 25-year-old foreign policy researcher based in DC. I graduated from Tufts University in 2017, where I studied International Relations and Arabic. I'm originally from Buffalo, NY, where I'm currently hanging out for the pandemic along with my parents and younger sister and brother. 

I enjoy reading (mostly politics and history), hiking (the bigger and colder the better), and cooking (not great tbh, but working on it). Friends would describe me as happy and laid-back, but also ambitious. I started studying Islam more seriously in college and regularly attend classes/Halaqas. 

I'm looking for someone who's interested in continual learning and growth, but who can also get unnecessarily competitive in Mario Kart with me. I'm a third generation Muslim-American so I'm looking for someone also raised in the West.