NEW YORK \u2014 Rama Duwaji, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, will be heading to Syria and Lebanon without an NYPD detail next month as she visits family, city officials said.<\/p>\n
“There was a miscommunication,” Mamdani said on PIX11 when asked about reports his wife would be bringing a detail with her. “She has not taken that trip. When she takes that trip, it will be without any NYPD detail.”<\/p>\n
The two<\/a> countries<\/a> are on Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory from the U.S. Department of State \u2014 the highest safety warning.<\/p>\n “The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level 4 travel advisories for discretionary reasons such as personal travel,” a spokesperson for the police department said in a statement.<\/p>\n Duwaji was born in Texas, is of Syrian descent, and spent much of her childhood in Dubai. She’s 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