May 25, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Miss USA 2010

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The Media's Role in Combating Unilateral Points of View

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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 | Religion

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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 | Style

Read More: Lebanon, Arabs, Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010, Middle East, Miss USA Controversy, American Muslims, Muslims, Racism, Hezbollah, Immigration, Muslim, Barack Obama, Arab Americans, Style News

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 Miss USA Pageant And The Politics Of Beauty

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

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 | Religion

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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 | Religion

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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 | Religion

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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Rima Fakih Stripper PHOTOS: Miss USA's Pole Dancing Past Revealed; Pageant Officials Investigate (PICTURE, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

It didn't take long for the new Miss USA to become embroiled in a scandal: Rima Fakih--an Arab-American from Dearborn, Michigan, who was crowned Miss ...

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Rima Fakih Arab-American from Michigan crowned 2010 Miss USA

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

UPDATE: Miss USA Rima Fakih is embroiled in her first scandal: a website posted photos of the beauty queen participating in (and winning) a pole danci...

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Donald Trump On Racy Miss USA Photos: 'I Have No Problem With It' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Donald Trump definitely subscribes to the philosophy that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Of the sexy Miss USA promo photos, the pageant owner...

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Miss USA Promo Photos: Too Hot Or Just Right? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Update: Pageant owner Donald Trump has said he has "no problem with" the photos. And former Miss USA Tara Conner, who admitted to drug and alcohol ab...

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