Posts Tagged ‘beauty pageants’

• Haters Gonna Hate: the Backlash Against Miss USA

  May 19th, 2010 Rima Fakih, an Arab Muslim immigrant, won the Miss USA Pageant Sunday night: She beat out four blondes...

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• Tahmena Bokhari: A Study in (How We Talk About) Contradictions

  January 21st, 2010 Tahmena Bokhari, a feminist, Muslim, Canadian, social worker, and educator, was recently crowned Mrs. Pakistan 2010 (not to...

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• Beauty and the Media Beast: the 2009 Miss Arab World Pageant

  November 30th, 2009 Let’s cut to the point: no matter how hard anyone tries to make it deep and philosophical, the...

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