New York : Four years ago, in October 2021, Rama Duwaji posted a carousel of pictures to her Instagram. “Archives from this summer,” she wrote. “Feeling ready to girlboss my way back into making/posting more art after being burnt out for what feels like forever.”

Among the selection was a film snap of a man on a Coney Island boardwalk holding a toy frog and wearing a Bernie Sanders bag. She had just met him on the dating app, Hinge. Four years later, she would join him on stage as he became mayor of New York City , hailing her in his acceptance speech as “hayati” – Arabic for “my life”.

New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani with his wife Rama Duwaji and parents Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair during an election night event. Credit: Bloomberg

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