Just about every month Rama Duwaji, the coy artist wife of mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, makes a list of the things that “make me want to make art.”

On October 9, as her husband continued with his frenetic campaign for office, those inspirations included “the relief work on the facade of the Grand Central Terminal” and the patterns of a Jacquard loom,” an 1805 weaving machine.

A few days later, Duwaji, 28 — who was born in Texas but identifies as Syrian — included a post in her Instagram stories which may have shocked some of her followers, for it was in stark contrast to her usual reveries on the nature of art.

Duwaji posted four broken heart emojis along with a photo of notorious terrorist propagandist Saleh Al-Jafarawi, known as Mr. FAFO, on October 12 after he was killed by an ant

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