Overview
- New coverage confirms the couple married in February in a simple courthouse ceremony at the Lower Manhattan city clerk’s office, with photos released to counter claims of a lavish Dubai event.
- Duwaji was born in Houston to Syrian parents and moved to Dubai at age nine before returning to the United States.
- She studied design at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Qatar, transferred to VCU in Richmond, and earned a master’s in illustration at New York’s School of Visual Arts.
- Her work as an illustrator and ceramicist has appeared with outlets and institutions including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the BBC, Vogue, and Tate Modern.
- She met Mamdani on Hinge in 2021, their first date was at Qahwah House in Brooklyn, they got engaged in October 2024, and her posts and interviews show sympathy for the Palestinian cause.