Who is Zohran Mamdani’s wife? Inside the life of Rama Duwaji

When Zohran Mamdani was declared the next mayor of New York City on Tuesday night, he made history becoming the first Muslim mayor and the youngest to lead the city in over a century.

But standing beside him, smiling quietly as the crowd roared, was someone about to make history too – his wife, 28-year-old artist Rama Duwaji.

While Mamdani’s political rise has captured headlines, his love story with Rama is straight out of a movie — one that begins not in City Hall, but on a dating app.

A match made on hinge

The couple first connected on Hinge in 2021, back when Mamdani had just been elected to the New York State Assembly. Rama, a Syrian-American illustrator based in Brooklyn, wasn’t familiar with New York politics — and Mamdani wasn’t exactly looking for the spotlight.