Yes, it matters that a Qatari royal has patronized the later career of Zohran Mamdani’s film-making mom , Mira Nair: It’s another piece in the vast, hypocritical puzzle of the Democratic Socialist’s privileged life.

Nair got her BA at Harvard; Mahmood Mamdani, his PhD. They raised Zohran on Riverside Drive in a high-end complex dedicated to Columbia faculty housing and sent him to pricey Bank Street School and later to also-pricey Bowdoin College.

She had fully established herself well before Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, sister to Qatar’s ruling emir, began sponsoring her work.

Nair’s 1991 film “Mississippi Masala,” starring Denzel Washington, won three Venice Film Festival awards; her 2001 “Monsoon Wedding” earned the Golden Lion at Venice; her made-for-HBO 2002 “Hysterica

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