{"id":374,"date":"2026-08-11T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=374"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:08:04","slug":"rama-duwaji-will-nypd-cops-go-to-syria-lebanon-with-zohran-mamdanis-wife-row-over-rama-duwajis-travel-plan-to-meet-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Rama Duwaji: Will NYPD cops go to Syria, Lebanon with Zohran Mamdani’s wife? Row over Rama Duwaji’s travel plan to meet family"},"content":{"rendered":"


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NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a>‘s wife Rama Duwaji has a trip to Syria and Lebanon on her schedule in September and that has triggered a major row as it is not clear whether she will be accompanied by NYPD security. New York Post reported that Duwaji requested NYPD security after she traveled overseas last month without police protection. But the countries that she intends to visit are on State Department’s ‘Do Not Travel’ list for Americans.Mayoral spokesperson Dora Pekec confirmed to New York Post that Rama Duwaji’s security detail will be joining her when she travel to visit family in Syria and Lebanon. But NYPD later denied it and said such a trip would never be approved.\u201cThe NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work,\u201d an NYPD spokesperson told Post, adding that this is not an official trip and hence NYPD personnel will not be traveling with Duwaji.Dov Hikind, a former Brooklyn Assemblyman and the founder of Americans Against Antisemtism, said if NYPD cops accompany Rama Duwaji, they will be in danger, and there is no danger for Duwaji in these countries as she will be “protected by Hezbollah”.\u201cWe\u2019re putting the police officers in danger. They will be viewed as the bad guys. These are war zones,\u201d Hikind said. \u201cDuwaji doesn\u2019t need security. She will get a hero\u2019s welcome and be protected by Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis,\u201d Hikind said.<\/p>\n

Rama Duwaji’s Middle-East connection<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Duwaji is a Syrian-American artist, animator, illustrator and ceramist. Born is Texas to Syrian parents, she grew up in New Jersey and Dubai. Her parents, Marwan Duwaji and Dr Bariah Dardari, are from Damascus. While her family has heritage and ties in Syria, her mother has also worked on medical\/humanitarian missions in the region with the Syrian American Medical Society. Duwaji completed an artist residency in Beirut, Lebanon, before moving to New York City in 2021.Her work frequently centers on themes of Arab identity, womanhood, female solidarity, migration, and social justice.Last month, Duwaji co-hosted a pro-Palestinian all-female spiritual retreat on the French island of Corsica. Before that, she was at another retreat on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where she was the \u201cartist-in-residence\u201d at a sold-out \u201cPlants Of The Quran\u201d workshop. In these trips, Duwaji was not accompanied by NYPD cops.<\/div>\n


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NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported. NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s wife Rama Duwaji has a trip to Syria and Lebanon on her schedule in September and that has triggered a major row as it is not clear whether she will be accompanied by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}