Miss USA Rima Fakih

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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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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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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Muslim Miss USA: Mosque Too Close To WTC Site

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rima Fakih, the first Muslim Miss USA, has come out against the location of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque." Fakih, whose faith caused a bit of ...

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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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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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The Miss USA Pageant And The Politics Of Beauty

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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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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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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Congrats to Miss USA But Here are the Arab American Women I Look Up To

Nour Akkad | Posted 05.25.2011

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Should Rima Fakih's victory really be looked at as groundbreaking? One Facebook post equated Fakih's win to Barack Obama becoming the first African American President. If a beauty pageant win is our breakthrough moment, we're in trouble.

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Rima Fakih Arab-American from Michigan crowned 2010 Miss USA

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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