{"id":12663,"date":"2025-11-06T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=12663"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:11:29","slug":"she-and-her-husband-are-already-making-a-huge-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=12663","title":{"rendered":"She and her husband are already making a huge impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A match made on hinge<br \/>\nThe 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\u2019t familiar with New York politics \u2014 and Mamdani wasn\u2019t exactly looking for the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12664\" src=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4444-2-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4444-2-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4444-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their first date was refreshingly normal: coffee at Qahwah House, a cozy Yemeni caf\u00e9 in Brooklyn, followed by a walk through McCarren Park. On their second date, Mamdani took Rama on a tour of his Astoria district, the same neighborhood that would one day help make him mayor.<\/p>\n<p>By October 2024, the two were engaged<\/p>\n<p>But standing beside him, smiling quietly as the crowd roared, was someone about to make history too \u2013 his wife, 28-year-old artist Rama Duwaji.While Mamdani\u2019s political rise has captured headlines, his love story with Rama is straight out of a movie \u2014 one that begins not in City Hall, but on a dating app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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