A week after his historic win, New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, has become both a target and a symbol of what’s changing and what isn’t in America. His rise forces a reckoning with how Muslim belonging is negotiated in public life, and whether representation can really challenge entrenched Islamophobia and inequality. On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Professor Salim Daniels, Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University in New York, US.
