Rama Duwaji has drawn public attention as the wife of newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani,<\/p>\n
though she has largely remained private. A Brooklyn-based artist,<\/p>\n
Duwaji met Mamdani in 2021 on Hinge, and they married at the City Clerk\u2019s office in early 2025.<\/p>\n
As Mamdani\u2019s victory brought scrutiny, he defended her in a May 2025 Instagram post, writing,<\/p>\n
\u201cRama isn\u2019t just my wife, she\u2019s an incredible artist who deserves to be known on her own terms.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Duwaji declined press interviews after the primary, telling The New York Times<\/em> the attention felt overwhelming.<\/p>\n Born in the U.S. and raised partly with Syrian roots, she once said,<\/p>\n \u201cI was born in the States and lived here till I was nine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Her art explores identity, sisterhood, and community,<\/p>\n with clients including The New Yorker<\/em> and Tate Modern.<\/p>\n While social media has praised her appearance and poise,<\/p>\n Duwaji continues to define herself primarily through her work and values, not political spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rama Duwaji has drawn public attention as the wife of newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, though she has largely remained private. A Brooklyn-based artist, Duwaji met Mamdani in 2021 on Hinge, and they married at the City Clerk\u2019s office in early 2025. As Mamdani\u2019s victory brought scrutiny, he defended her in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}