first Arab magazine cover to feature model wearing a bikini

[King_David]

'It's about time someone did this': Exclusive photos from first Arab magazine cover to feature model wearing a bikini

By Daisy Dumas
Yara Mashour has made it her business to break taboos. As editor in chief of Lilac, an Arab magazine based in Israel, she has set out to challenge customs and tradition - and her latest milestone is perhaps her biggest triumph to date.

This month's Lilac, for the first time ever, sees an Arab magazine featuring a model in a bikini on its front cover. And, to double the cause for celebration, that stunning, strong and empowering woman is an Arab Israeli.
The model in question is 22-year-old Huda Naccache, from Haifa, who poses wearing a black sequinned bikini, her fixed stare cementing the magazine's determination to make a difference


In a region that is synonymous with gender discrimination, women's rights violations and spousal domination, Lilac is daring to tread where no other publisher in the Middle East has ventured.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Yara said: 'Since I established in Nazareth, Israel 10 years ago, I set out to break taboos regarding women in society... I worked on empowering and liberating .'


She continued: 'Huda is the first Arab model to appear on the cover of an Arabic magazine in a bikini. Lilac is the first Arabic magazine to show a cover with a bikini!
'I don't recall this being done elsewhere in the Arab world,' she added. 'I have been working for a decade on changing society so Arab women can have more rights and freedom in the Middle East.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2038353/Lilac-First-Arab-magazine-cover-feature-model-Huda-Naccache-bikini.html#ixzz1YHLz4n2R

[JI7]

1. fine, but the pics are not good at all

[kickysnana]

2. What on earth? Perhaps YOU are on the wrong site. n/t

[Traveling_Home]

3. Israeli-Arab Model in an Arab magazine based in Israel

'First, allowing for an Israeli Arab model to represent both Jewish and Arab women of the country. Second, starting a new concept of Arab women who are willing to break social taboos and dare to boast and share their physical beauty in public.'

This would never be allowed in the typically misogynistic Arab countries.

[King_David]

4. True that. nt

[Warpy]

5. All the women I took care of from Saudi and Kuwait

and other religiously conservative areas all had plenty of fashion magazines from Italy and France with them. It's not like anybody in a bikini is going to shock anyone in those countries.

I think the big deal is that this is the first time one of their own has appeared in such a shocking state of undress, even though the beaches are full of them in more liberal countries.

[King_David]

6. `the beaches are full of them in more liberal countries.`

Morocco? or Saudi Arabia ?

[Warpy]

7. Some of the UAE, Lebanon, Turkey

There are liberal Islamic countries out there, you know, where wearing even a simple head scarf is optional.

[King_David]

9. Turkey is not an Arab country though

And used to be a Secular state too.

[Warpy]

10. Nice way to move the goalposts, Slick

Turkey is an Islamic country.

[King_David]

11. No goalposts were moved

The OP is about Arab magazines not Islamic magazines.

[CJvR]

8. Progress.

Traditional arab fasion is rather boring... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-sCwJCYxbI