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, chill, and ambitious. I started studying Islam more seriously in college and regularly pray, read Qur'an, and 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.