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The New York Police Department (NYPD) denied that it was sending any personnel as security for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, when she will travel to Syria and Lebanon next month, The New York Post reported on Tuesday. The New York Post reported on Monday evening that Duwaji would be protected by police officers assigned to her as taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail during her trip to the Middle East, citing a source in the New York City Hall. Both countries are on the United States' "Level 4: Do not Travel" list for citizens. Lebanon's Level 4...

Something has gone wrong somewhere along the way in America and New York City. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji is heading to Syria and Lebanon next month – and she’s bringing along cops assigned to the First Couple’s taxpayer-funded NYPD detail, The Post has learned. Duwaji will be jetting to the Middle East for a trip beginning Sept. 20 to the countries on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list for Americans because of dangerous conditions, a source said. Duwaji, a 29-year-old Syrian-American artist, has ties to the region and refers to herself as a “Syrian Illustrator” on her...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed his wife Rama Duwaji isn’t a public figure Friday – despite receiving fawning media coverage – after facing uproar for her liking social media posts celebrating Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack. The democratic socialist, 34, was confronted during an unrelated event about his 28-year-old artist spouse liking Instagram posts that shared graphic imagery of the terror group’s murderous rampage — in the hours after the attack — and trumpeted anti-Israel rhetoric, Jewish Insider reported. “My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my...

Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently celebrated his wedding to his artist wife at a lavish compound owned by his family in Uganda. Mamdani, 33, shocked the political world when he defeated Andrew Cuomo to win the Democrat nomination to run the Big Apple, campaigning on far left policy and drawing controversy for his anti-Israel views. The state assemblyman recently took a break from the campaign to visit Uganda, where he was born and spent the first few years of his life being raised by his filmmaker mother Mira Nair and academic father Mahmood Mamdani. The far-left...