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Who Is Rama Duwaji? Meet New York City’s First Gen Z First Lady
Rama Duwaji, a Syrian-American artist and activist, supports her husband’s historic mayoral campaign while advocating for Middle Eastern women, immigration, and social justice.
- Zohran Mamdani, New York City's newly-elected mayor, begins his term as the youngest in a century, while Rama Duwaji becomes New York City's first Gen Z First Lady and artist, joining him onstage to celebrate.
- They met on the dating app Hinge in 2021, and Mamdani said `So there is still hope in those dating apps`; three months ago, they married at the City Clerk's office, with Duwaji supporting behind the scenes.
- As a designer and artist, Rama Duwaji finalised the campaign palette and iconography, elevated digital strategy, and ran tile-making workshops last month charging $146.
- Facing online hostility, Duwaji brushes off death threats and deportation calls while using her voice to highlight issues in the US, Palestine and Syria.
- Looking beyond immediate headlines, Mamdani and Duwaji represent a generational shift blending creativity, activism and public service that resonates with New York's 30-something population, median age 38.
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der Standard DEThe wife of the future mayor Zohran Mamdani is illustrator and deals in her works mainly with the Middle East
·Vienna, Austria
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After the victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral election in New York, his wife has also found herself in the spotlight of the American public. Who is the 28-year-old artist who has mostly been 'hiding' in the background during the election campaign?
·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Leaning Left5Leaning Right0Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution56% Left
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