New York City has a new mayor, and his victory is historic. Zohran Mamdani, 34, has made history as the city’s first Muslim mayor. His campaign was impossible to miss from rallying crowds at marathons to making waves on social media. But behind the public whirlwind stood a quieter force: his wife, Rama Duwaji, the creative mind helping shape the look and feel of Mamdani’s journey to City Hall.

At 28, Rama Duwaji is an accomplished artist whose work has received praises from across the globe. Born in Houston, Texas, to a Syrian family, she spent part of her childhood in Dubai after her family moved there when she was nine. Her path in the arts took her from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Qatar to its Richmond campus in the US. She later went to the prestigious Sch

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