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Jessica Kahawaty Beauty Pageant Titleholder from Australia with Lebanese Origins

Jessica Kahawaty Beauty Pageant Titleholder from Australia with Lebanese Origins

Jessica Kahawaty is a beauty pageant titleholder from Australia with Lebanese origins. Jessica is the face of Maybelline Cosmetics in both Asia and India. Her full name is Jessica Michelle Kahawaty and she was born on the 12th of September 1988 in Sydney, Australia. In May of 2007 and at the age of 18, Jessica [...]

Happy Eid Al Barbara 2010

Happy Eid Al Barbara 2010

Every third of December in Beirut, children in masks roam their neighborhood knocking on doors, collecting sweets and chocolate, to celebrate the Eid al-Barbara, the feast of Barbara. Screaming heyshlee Barbara – run away Barbara – it has become a tradition to compete with each other for the biggest stash of goodies. A local legend, [...]

Saudi Woman Sues Her Father Who Stopped Her Marriage Without Her Will

Saudi Woman Sues Her Father Who Stopped Her Marriage Without Her Will

Year after year, the 42-year-old Saudi surgeon remains single, against her will. Her father keeps turning down marriage proposals, and her hefty salary keeps going directly to his bank account. The surgeon in the holy city of Medina knows her father, also her male guardian, is violating Islamic law by forcibly keeping her single, a [...]

Saudi Men Don’t Want to Marry with Nurses

Saudi Men Don’t Want to Marry with Nurses

With the springing up of more and more hospitals and health centers across the Kingdom, there has also been a huge demand for nursing staff, a field that is overwhelmingly dominated by foreigners. However, more and more young Saudi women are also becoming nurses, something that is leading to a new phenomenon. “The number of [...]

Super Model Yamila Diaz Rahi

Super Model Yamila Diaz Rahi

Yamila Díaz-Rahi, is a super model native to Argentina with Lebanese and Spanish roots. Díaz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina of Spanish and Lebanese descent. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a health care manager. While studying Economics in Buenos Aires in 1996, she took a holiday in Uruguay where she [...]