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Rarely has a New York mayoral election drawn global attention the way the one won by Zohran Mamdani did. The outcome opened up crucial conversations around minority politics, representation, and the meaningful participation of communities, particularly Muslims, within a popular democracy. It also signalled a swift and striking shift in the American political imagination, the very space that had enabled the rise of the far right not long before.
In this episode of the Uppu Podcast, we sit down with Afeef Ahmed, a PhD scholar at Harvard University, to unpack the political, social, and ideological implications of this moment.