{"id":245368,"date":"2026-08-11T22:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/245368\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:53:19","slug":"mayor-mamdanis-wife-rama-duwaji-to-travel-to-syria-lebanon-without-nypd-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/245368\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, to travel to Syria, Lebanon without NYPD detail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rama Duwaji, Mayor Mamdani\u2019s wife, will be heading to Syria and Lebanon without an NYPD detail next month as she visits family, city officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a miscommunication,\u201d Mamdani said on PIX11 when asked about reports his wife would be bringing a detail with her. \u201cShe has not taken that trip. When she takes that trip, it will be without any NYPD detail.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two<\/a>\u00a0countries<\/a> are on Level 4 \u201cDo Not Travel\u201d advisory from the U.S. Department of State \u2014 the highest safety warning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYPD does not send officers to countries with level 4 travel advisories for discretionary reasons such as personal travel,\u201d a spokesperson for the police department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"MayorMayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, are pictured at his ceremonial swearing in at City Hall on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Duwaji was born in Texas, is of Syrian descent, and spent much of her childhood in Dubai. She\u2019s also spent time in Beirut, having completed a residency there in 2019. She and Mamdani wed in February 2025 in a City Hall ceremony.<\/p>\n

Duwaji, an artist, has been both scrutinized and idolized to varying degrees by the public and the press, and she has mainly tried to stay out of the public eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy focus isn\u2019t on being a public figure, but continuing my work with care and responsibility, and allowing my art to speak for itself,\u201d Duwaji told the outlet Hyperallergic in an April interview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rama Duwaji, Mayor Mamdani\u2019s wife, will be heading to Syria and Lebanon without an NYPD detail next month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[14150,2440,4204,68302,42,81,95],"class_list":["post-245368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-election","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117079337685099838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}