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Farida Zeynalova
Farida Zeynalova has been a member of the editorial team at National Geographic Traveller (UK) for almost a decade and is currently associate editor of Food by National Geographic Traveller. In 2024, Farida won TravMedia’s Specialist Travel Writer of the Year award for her pieces on culinary travel and she's been nominated in the Best Writer — Specialist category at the BSME Talent Awards 2024. Her favourite assignments include Ajlun (Jordan), Chios (Greece), Fyti (Cyprus) and Berufjörður (Iceland). The one thing she loves most in life? A perfectly grilled shashlik kebab in the hinterlands of her motherland, Azerbaijan. X — @faridazeynalova
