Zohran Mamdani

13 hours ago - He won the Democratic primary in June 2025, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo in an upset, and was elected mayor in the November general election. He is New York City's first Muslim and Asian American mayor. Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, the only ...

3 weeks ago - NEW YORK (AP) — Incoming Mayor ... 34-year-old Democrat became mayor in a long-closed subway station beneath City Hall, the first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born person to hold that position....

January 06, 2026 Zohran Mamdani ’14 was sworn in as New York City’s mayor just after midnight on January 1, 2026, at once becoming the city’s first mayor of South Asian descent, its first Muslim mayor, its first Bowdoin alumnus, and the ...

3 weeks ago - Muslims largely supported Mamdani, but they weren’t automatic votes. They were earned. He campaigned for them, chasing them around at one of the public celebrations that make New York such an exciting place to live. That’s the complexity of it. The pride of watching a Muslim achieve something historic, paired with the humility of knowing that this victory doesn’t belong to Muslims alone. Zohran Mamdani isn’t a “Muslim mayor” the way his critics insist.

2 weeks ago - Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, to New York City’s top job marked a number of firsts. He is the first Muslim and South Asian person to serve as mayor, the first to use a Quran at his swearing-in and the youngest mayor in over ...

3 weeks ago - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed to govern as a democratic socialist, saying he would not "abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical."

2 days ago - Afua Atta-Mensah, the city's new ... Mamdani, 34, has vowed to govern as a 'democratic socialist' and was recently sworn in as the city's first Muslim mayor....

3 weeks ago - Almost a decade since he was elected the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital, Khan, now 55 and in his third term, said it was “heartbreaking” to see the same anti-Islam tropes once directed at him now aimed at Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani ’14 was sworn in as New York City’s mayor just after midnight on January 1, 2026, at once becoming the city’s first mayor of South Asian descent, its first Muslim mayor, its first Bowdoin alumnus, and the youngest leader ...

2 weeks ago - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocatenwas pictured breaking down on Wednesday after being questioned on her hypocritical record.

3 weeks ago - It was a little more than 24 hours ... that had kept New Yorkers paying too much for too little and in which he declared himself a proud Muslim, a proud immigrant, and a proud democratic socialist; quoted Eugene ...

3 weeks ago - Mamdani is a South Asian New Yorker who was born in Uganda, while Duwaji is American-Syrian. The meteoric rise of a Muslim democratic socialist also brought a surge of Islamophobic rhetoric, amplified by national attention on the race.

November 5, 2025 - This week, New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani was convincingly elected to be the first Muslim Mayor of New York City. Parveen Akhtar writes that much like London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, Mamdani’s Muslim identity saw his campaign ...

November 5, 2025 - It's official: the biggest city in the US has its first Muslim and first South Asian mayor. Since democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani first entered New York City's mayoral race, the 34-year-old state assemblyman from Queens has risen from near-total ...

3 weeks ago - Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.

November 5, 2025 - Now, the 34-year-old democratic socialist will be New York’s first Muslim mayor with a profile that stretches far beyond the city, across America and indeed the world. Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City in historic win