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Queenie Shaikh

Queenie Shaikh is an award-winning travel journalist from London. Her writing often explores themes of ethnic and religious diversity, heritage tourism, and film and entertainment.

<p>Downtown Community House at 105–107 Washington Street and the tenement at 109</p>

New York

How Little Syria became New York’s coolest forgotten neighbourhood

New York

How New York’s immigrant communities built a culinary capital

<p>Queenie on the steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art</p>

New York

Does NYC live up to the hype of millennial TV shows?

<p>Córdoba is often overlooked as a city break but fits the bill for anyone after impressive history, architecture and food </p>

Spain

Why Ramadan is the perfect time to see the Islamic wonders of Cordoba

London

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Queenie Shaikh

How Little Syria became New York’s coolest forgotten neighbourhood

How New York’s immigrant communities built a culinary capital

Does NYC live up to the hype of millennial TV shows?

Why Ramadan is the perfect time to see the Islamic wonders of Cordoba

When Ramadan and Pancake Day overlaps in London

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