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Heba Gowayed

Heba Gowayed is a writer and associate professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center. She is author of essays and articles on issues of race, border violence and displacement, as well as the book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential, published with Princeton University Press in 2022. @hebagowayed.bsky.social @gowayed (instagram)

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Heba Gowayed

Nov 5, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human

It is against this background of a country that has reduced Muslims into a dark, foreign, terrorist “other,” that Mamdani ran a campaign that centers the affordability of the city for all who live within it.

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Heba Gowayed

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human