Who is the wife of NYC candidate Zohran Mamdani?

Rama Dawaji, a 27 -year -old artist and host, was honored while her husband Zohran Mamdani became the probable Democratic candidate this week for the mayor of New York.

Ms. Duwaji is an artist based in New York with Syrian roots whose work often explores themes from the Middle East. His work appeared on BBC News, and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the vice and the Tate Modern Museum in London.

“Rama is not only my wife; she is an incredible artist who deserves to be known according to his own conditions,” wrote Mamdani in an article on May 12, announcing that they were married three months earlier.

“OMG she is real,” joked Ms. Duwaji in a comment on this post.

Ms. Duwaji was rarely seen during the first election campaign of her husband to direct the most populous American city, leading the opponents to say that the 33 -year -old state “hid” his wife.

His absence was remarkable, given that we, candidates, often put their spouses in the midst of display to show their commitment to family values.

Mamdani, a 33 -year -old democratic socialist, said an astonishing victory in the primary of the Democratic Party on Tuesday, beating his main rival and political veteran Andrew Cuomo who was previously state governor.

Mamdani addressed criticism of his wife’s absence in his May post, which included a series of photos showing their marriage to the office of the New York City Registrar.

“If you take a look at Twitter today, or any day, you know how vicious politics can be,” he wrote.

“I generally brush it, whether it is death threats or calls for me to be expelled. But it is different when it comes to those you love … You can criticize my opinions, but not my family.”

After the results of the Democratic primary arrived earlier this week, she took her own Instagram page to publish black and white photos of the embracing couple with legend “could not be more proud”.

The couple met on the hinge of the meeting application, “so there is still hope in these meeting applications,” said the candidate in an interview for the rampart last week.

“Before their civil ceremony in New York, Zohran and his wife celebrated their commitment to Dubai last year – where his family lives – with a small joyful ceremony surrounded by their loved ones,” Mamdani’s campaign in a statement said.

Photos published by a florist in Dubai showed the roofs of Dubai City in the background, while the couple stood on the roof where they held a traditional Islamic wedding ceremony known as Nikah.

Ms. Duwaji graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University before obtaining a master’s degree in the School of Visual Arts in New York.

“Using portraits and drawn movements, Rama examines the nuances of fraternity and community experiences”, reads the professional website of Ms. Duwaji.

A large part of his work is in black and white and represents scenes from the Arab world. Ms. Duwaji herself was born in Texas and is ethnically Syrian, a campaign spokesman for the New York Times said on Wednesday.

In 2022, his works appeared in the documentary of the BBC World Service “which killed my grandfather” who investigated the assassination of a Yemeni politician in 1974.

Some of her works listed on Instagram criticize “American imperialism”, which she called Israeli war crimes and denounces the “ethnic cleaning” of the Palestinians, reflecting some of her husband’s political positions. Israel categorically denies the accusations of genocide in Gaza.

His works also show support for Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate of the University of Columbia that the Trump administration seeks to expel the assertions that his work defending the Palestinians is equivalent to “anti -Semitism” towards the Jews.

The Brooklyn-based artist spent most of the coronavirus pandemic in Dubai, where his family lives, she said in an interview in April with the Yung website.

In this interview, she was asked about recent events in the Middle East, the return to the White House of Donald Trump and a sharp increase in immigration raids.

“I’m not going to lie, things are dark right now in New York. I’m worried about my friends and family, and things feel completely out of my hands,” she said.

“With so many people driven and silenced by fear, all I can do is use my voice to talk about what’s going on in the United States and in Palestine and Syria as much as possible,” she added.

She was also asked about the responsibility of responsibility that artists must talk about global issues.

“The duty of an artist as far as I’m concerned is to reflect time,” she said, quoting musician Nina Simone.

“I believe that everyone is responsible for denouncing injustice, and art has such an ability to spread it,” she continued.

“I do not think that everyone must do political work, but art is intrinsically political in the way it is done, funded and shared. Even creating art as a refuge of the horrors that we see is political for me. It is a reaction to the world around us.”