Samia Qaiyum

Samia Qaiyum is a travel and culture writer in Penang, Malaysia, contributing to the likes of Kinfolk, Fodor's, Condé Nast Traveller, The Travel Almanac, and Monocle. A textbook third culture kid with a perpetual thirst for adventure, she has lived in six countries and travelled to 34 others — just don't ask her to define the word "home".