- Zohran Kwame Mamdani (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician who has served since 2026 as the 112th mayor of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he represented the 36th district in the New York State Assembly from 2021 to 2025. Mamdani is New York City’s first Muslim and first Asian American mayor.
- Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, the only child of postcolonialist academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair.
- Mamdani was elected mayor on November 4, 2025, becoming the city’s youngest mayor since 1892, its first Asian American and Muslim mayor, and its first foreign-born mayor since Abraham Beame, who was born in the United Kingdom.
- Mamdani took the oath on the Quran, making him the first mayor of the [New York] city to do so.
