{"id":12654,"date":"2025-11-06T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:15:11","slug":"what-iraq-can-learn-from-zohran-mamdanis-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/2025\/11\/12654\/","title":{"rendered":"What Iraq Can Learn from Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night in New York City, something remarkable happened. Zohran Mamdani\u2014a Ugandan-born Muslim, son of an Indian filmmaker and a Ugandan political theorist\u2014 was elected mayor of the world\u2019s most diverse city. His victory, while geographically distant, should send a quiet tremor through political circles far beyond America\u2019s borders, including Iraq, where parliamentary elections are set to be held on 11 November.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s triumph was not just about politics. It was about communication. And that is where Iraq\u2019s political class keeps failing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/What-Iraq-Can-Learn-from-Zohran-Mamdanis-Win6112025-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night in New York City, something remarkable happened. Zohran Mamdani\u2014a Ugandan-born Muslim, son of an Indian filmmaker and a Ugandan political theorist\u2014 was elected mayor of the world\u2019s most diverse city. His victory, while geographically distant, should send a quiet tremor through political circles far beyond America\u2019s borders, including Iraq, where parliamentary elections are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":12656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,1732,1740,5,1731],"tags":[758,933,1835,45,147,1836,1837],"class_list":{"0":"post-12654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-domestic-and-foreign-policy","8":"category-political-studies","9":"category-position-assessment-papers","10":"category-foreign-policy-international-affairs","11":"category-research-department","12":"tag-al-bayan-center","13":"tag-america","14":"tag-election-rhetoric","15":"tag-iraq","16":"tag-iraqi-elections","17":"tag-zahran-mamdani","18":"tag-zahran-wins"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/What-Iraq-Can-Learn-from-Zohran-Mamdanis-Win6112025-1.webp","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-3i6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12657,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions\/12657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}