田舎臭い東京。 (2) Tokyo with a provincial feel. (2)

田舎臭い東京。 (1)　Tokyo with a provincial feel. (1)
https://art-culture.world/politics/tokyo-is-provincial/
の続き。

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ラマ・ドゥワジ氏は、2025年の選挙でニューヨーク市長に選出された政治家ゾーラン・マムダニ氏と結婚しており、2026年1月1日にニューヨーク市のファーストレディに就任する。

Rama Duwaji is married to politician Zohran Mamdani, who was elected mayor of New York City in the 2025 election, and will thus assume the role of First Lady of New York City on January 1, 2026.

https://www.instagram.com/ramaduwaji

Who is Rama Duwaji?

The Artist in Gracie Mansion
Rama Duwaji is excited for her husband Zohran Mamdani’s new job. Just don’t call her the mayor’s plus-one.
Dec. 23, 2025

Rama Duwaji is moving in slow motion. At least, that’s how it’s felt since 10 p.m. on June 24, the night that put her on the fast track to becoming one of New York City’s youngest First Ladies — and its first-ever Muslim one. An aide for her husband, Zohran Mamdani, looked over at Duwaji and yelled over the cheering at his primary-election watch party at a brewery in Long Island City, “He won!” In shock, Duwaji responded, “What do you mean?!”

Mamdani’s camp hadn’t anticipated the election to be called so early, let alone that night, but when the results were tallied in his favor, everything shifted. Mamdani quickly rewrote the speech he had planned, while an adviser began straight-talking with Duwaji: She was going onstage as the likely next First Lady. “I felt like I was walking through a fog,” she told me earlier this month on the eve of her move to Gracie Mansion. “My friend came in from D.C. that day, and she got to experience that moment of seeing me — my brain — literally develop. I was like, Okay, I’m locking in.”

Suddenly, she was the de facto adviser to the most headline-grabbing political candidate of 2025, strategizing over morning chai and shaping the look and feel of the campaign, whether coaching him on his Arabic pronunciations for what would become a viral campaign video (she’s a native speaker; he isn’t) or shaping the playful graphic design of the campaign.

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https://www.thecut.com/article/rama-duwaji-cut-cover-interview-zohran-mamdani.html