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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...