Zohran Mamdani, left, with his mother, Mira Nair, and father, Mahmood Mamdani, in June. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
"Always be available for discussion, for sharing our point of view, but not mistaking ourselves for being him," he added.
Mahmood Mamdani, who is a professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University and director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Uganda, has also been promoting his new book, "Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State."
The work is described as a re-examination of Idi Amin’s Ugandan dictatorship.
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New York state assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, center, his mother, Mira Nair, left, wife, Rama Duwaji, and father, Mahmood Mamdani, celebrate on stage during a campaign event June 24 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Married to filmmaker Mira Nair since 1991, the two met while she was shooting "Mississippi Masala" in Uganda.
Zohran was born in 1991, and went on to become a community organizer and New York State assemblymember representing Astoria, Queens.
In the weeks leading up to Zohran's New York City mayoral campaign, controversy surrounding Mahmood Mamdani surfaced after a video of him discussing America’s influence on global settler colonialism went viral.
The clip, viewed more than 10 million times, featured him asserting in a 2022 panel discussion that the U.S. served as a model for subsequent settler-colonial projects, including those of Nazi Germany, Fox News Digital reported in July.
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Also, Mahmood Mamdani’s 2004 book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror" that was reportedly dedicated to "Zohran and his mates" included a line arguing that suicide bombing "needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Zohran Mamdani's campaign for comment.
Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
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