Rima Fakih

Reality Dating Show Features Two Local Celebs

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.09.2012

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Can you convince a celebrity to take you on a date without seeing who you are? What if you had a hometown advantage? When new Fox show "The Choice"...

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Former Miss USA Sentenced In Drunk Driving Case

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 05.09.2012

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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, avoided jail during sentencing Wednesday in her Michigan drun...

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Miss USA Pleads 'No Contest' In Drunk Driving Case

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 04.11.2012

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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, pleaded no contest Wednesday in a Michigan drunken driving ca...

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Ex-Miss USA’S Drunken Driving Trial

AP | By ED WHITE | Posted 03.20.2012

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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. -- A Michigan beauty queen who made headlines two years ago by becoming the first Arab-American crowned Miss USA will stand trial...

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Rima Fakih, Ex-Miss USA, Was Above Legal Alcohol Limit

AP | By JEFF KAROUB and DAVID N. GOODMAN | Posted 12.07.2011

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DETROIT -- Former Miss USA Rima Fakih was speeding and weaving through traffic with an uncorked, half-empty bottle of champagne and a blood-alcohol le...

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Miss USA Arrested On Drunk Driving Suspicions

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 04.11.2012

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From the moment she received her Miss USA crown, Rima Fakih has been embroiled in controversies. She initially grabbed headlines in 2010 when she b...

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Lessons We Can Learn From The Koran-Quoting Miss USA

Hani Almadhoun | Posted 01.11.2012

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Hani Almadhoun

Talking heads point fingers at Muslims for mistreating women, but they don't always practice what they preach when it comes to Muslim women wanting to break free.

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Miss USA Rima Fakih Talks About Her Partying (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.13.2011

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"Good Morning America" sat down with Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, to talk about her "bumpy year," which, of course, kicked off with her pole dancing pho...

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Muslims In America: A Year In Review

Mona Eltahawy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mona Eltahawy

Take one comedian, mix in a beauty queen, throw in some bigots and an exploding crow and you'll open an unorthodox window into the past year for Muslims in America.

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Why Lebanese Diplomacy Is Irrelevant in Washington

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Beauty pageants often arch an eyebrow in today's climate of political correctness. The Lebanese embassy in Washington, however, has taken celebrating beauty pageants to a whole new level.

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Miss USA Rima Fakih, Marc Jacobs & Denise Richards Party On Monday Night Of Fashion Week (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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There were a handful of fetes across Manhattan last night, and nearly six days into Fashion Week, you can tell the attendance is tapering off. But tha...

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Miss USA Rima Fakih Turns Heads At Fashion Fete (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Miss USA Rima Fakih--she of stripper scandal fame--turned heads at the Hugo Boss party on Thursday night. Page Six reports that although the fete was ...

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I Understand Shirley Sherrod

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Zogby

Something is fundamentally rotten in our political culture -- where groups seeking political advantage can so easily make victims of innocents and cowards will let good people pay a price rather than defend their rights to a fair hearing.

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U.S. Cultural Exports Complicate Ties With Muslims

Religion News Service | By Nicole Neroulias | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) As Carrie Bradshaw might write in her "Sex and the City" column, when it comes to America's relations...

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The Media's Role in Combating Unilateral Points of View

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

The following summarizes the author's comments at a round table this week to launch UNESCO's World Report "Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercu...

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Muslim Miss USA Rima Fakih Talks Faith, Being An Ambassador For Muslims

Religion News Service | By Omar Sacirbey | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Rima Fakih's path from Lebanon to Las Vegas, where she was crowned Miss USA on May 16, is not unlike oth...

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In Defence of an Arab-American Beauty Queen

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Faisal J. Abbas

I wasn't surprised that Fatih won the title because I believe in the democratic system that exists in the US. What I found to be appalling are some of things that have been said since she won the title last week.

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The New Miss USA: Progress or Bigger Problems for Muslims?

Nida Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nida Khan

While Rima's victory is undoubtedly shattering barriers, it is also simultaneously painting those Muslim women who practice the religion in a more traditional manner as further and further from the norm.

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What Is So Controversial? First Arab-American Crowned Miss USA

Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anushay Hossain

Fakih's story embodies what America is at its core: a melting point of cultures. It also breaks a huge stereotype, for better or for worse, about Arab-Americans.

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The Miss USA Pageant And The Politics Of Beauty

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Disgrasian

One of the most awesomely fake controversies of the year has got to be the decrying of newly-crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih--the first Muslim-American an...

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Muslim Miss USA: Progress Or Immodesty?

Religion News Service | By Omar Sacirbey | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Europe's burqa debate and a steady stream of media images showing veiled women have led to a widespread...

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She's Hot and Hezbollah: When Women Are Wielded as Ideological Weapons

Haroon Moghul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Haroon Moghul

Fakih will be wielded as a weapon to tell women what they're wearing is wrong. For far too long, women -- or women reduced to their bodies -- have been the fields on which ideas, identities, and now corporations do battle.

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Miss USA Scrutiny Indicates Weird Obsession with Islam

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ahmed Rehab

Just one day after Rima Fakih, an Arab-American Lebanese Muslim from Michigan, won the Miss USA pageant, her faith took center stage, and sure enough, some found a way to "link" her to terrorism.

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Miss USA Rima Fakih Bikini PHOTOS: Beauty Queen Parties On A Boat In A Swimsuit (PICTURE)

Posted 05.25.2011

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TMZ has these not-so-surprising photos of the newly crowned Miss USA partying on Lake Michigan last year. Rima Fakih won her title on Sunday night, an...

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Why They Hate an Arab Miss USA

Dean Obeidallah | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dean Obeidallah

Yes, that is correct - our new Miss America Rima Fakih is Arab-American! A great day for Arab-Americans - at least it should be.

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