Who is Rama Doji, wife of New York Mayor-elect Zahran Mamdani?
She studied media arts at the Virginia Commonwealth University branch, and then moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she graduated with honors in 2019, and received a master’s degree in drawing as a visual narrative tool from the College of Visual Arts in New York. Based in Brooklyn, she works as a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes illustration, pottery, and editorial design. Her work has been published in prestigious publications The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the BBC, Vogue, and Tate Modern. Her artistic works often address issues of Arab women, war, displacement, and Palestine. Rama Duji met Zahran Mamdani in 2021, and they got engaged in Dubai with family in October 2024 AD, and in early 2025 AD, they held a civil wedding ceremony in New York, and they also celebrated their wedding in Uganda, where Mamdani was born. With important roles Whose husband began to play in American politics, Douaji chose to stay away from the interests of the current mayor of New York, and preferred to support him behind the scenes. She rarely attended election campaign events, and refused most interviews, although she contributed to shaping the brand elements and digital identity of the campaign, but appeared in public only on major occasions, including his victory in the elections. In his victory speech that he delivered yesterday, Tuesday, after he became the first Muslim mayor of the city, he thanked Mamdani, his wife, said: "There is no one I would rather be by my side in this moment and in every moment than Rama".
The Democrat won Zahran Mamdani – a fierce opponent of Donald Trump – in the electoral race for the position of Who is Rama Duji? Arab Women’s Issues
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