Who is Zohran Mamdani's Wife, Rama Duwaji?

Fresh out of university and with her parents in Dubai, a Syrian-American artist named Rama Duwaji wondered what she would do with the rest of her life. “The ideal scenario is I’d be living in New York,” she told an interviewer. “I mean, it’s kind of a cliché.”

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That was in 2020. The next year she moved to the US where she met a man on a dating app and started working as a ceramicist and illustrator. This year they got married. Now she is going to become the first lady of New York City.

The city is not used to a spouse in the Gracie Mansion. Ed Koch, mayor for much of the eighties, had no partner. Rudy Giuliani, the mayor for much of the nineties, had a chaotic personal life: he announced that he was divorcing his second wife at a press conference in 2000, without informing her in advance. Michael Bloomberg, who was mayor for the first dozen years of the new millennium, was unmarried and did not mind people knowing it. “I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan,” he told a reporter. “It’s a wet dream.”

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