Almost all beauty contest I have heard of have a bikini round involved. But in this beauty pageant where participants of 16 countries were gathered didn’t have a bikini round and participants were to show-off their beauty by covering up the body as much as they can.
Can you guess where it must have been held?
Yes, it was the Miss Arab World 2007 beauty pageant held in Cairo - with Miss Bahrain, Wafa Yaqoop (shown above), being crowned the winner. It is a good thing at least they are conducting beauty pageants.
Here are photos of Palestinian contestant Merna Kattan, Kuwaiti contestant Fatma Ghadban, Iraqi contestant Mayada Hussein, and Moroccan contestant Sarah Banani:
Source : dailymail
I’m amazed to read this piece. Never thought Arab would be organizing such an event. My guess was Pakistan though. More or less, an encouraging step towards the development of muslim women. Keep up posting such a weird news.
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Well its the Arab complex nothing new, they do everything hidden, publicly they just FORBID bekinies HAHA
Not to disappoint anyone; but it was not a beauty pageant. It was a competition among under graduate students for morals, ethics and good manners. No walking down the podium was presented; it was much more like an intellectual competition.
however, they are beauty pageants in the Arab world but in certain countries like Lebanon and Egypt and the contestants participate in the global pageants, and you can see models from countries like morocco, Syria, Iraq and Jordan participate in less known regional pageants.
Such things are forbidden in the GCC (Gulf Council Countries). And one more thing, Pakistan is not an Arab country; it is a non Arab Muslim country.
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