A 20year old Iraqi student has shaken off death threats to rivals and a barrage of criticism to be crowned the first official Miss Iraq since 1972.
The pageant which was held on the 19th of december 2015, in Baghdad, Iraq. She says, “I want to prove that the Iraqi woman has her own existence in society, she has her rights like men,” Shaima Qassem Abdulrahman told NBC News on Saturday.
“I am afraid of nothing, because I am confident that what I am doing is not wrong.”
Over 150 women applied for Miss Iraq pageant, which organizers said was a chance to “create life in Iraq” and “revive our country” after years of bloodshed and internal chaos. We think she is bold and beautiful.
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