Taunay Abou Rejaili Crowned Miss Lebanese Diaspora

I actually attended the selection of Miss Lebanese Diaspora in Ghana and thought Ghana’s candidate had a chance of winning the big prize. Oh well, I guess Brazil beat us in this game too.

Taunay is cute, but she can’t speak Arabic:

It was the first visit to Lebanon for Abou Rejaili, whose grandfather left the village of Kfar Zabad in the Bekaa for Brazil. Her father was born in Brazil but the entire family moved back to Lebanon in 1970, and returned to Brazil in 1975, with the outbreak of the Civil War. A speaker of Portuguese and Spanish, Abou Rejaili needed a translator to tell a news conference at Furn al-Shubbak’s Press Club on Monday that she now had a new goal, namely to learn Arabic.

Congrats. I’m not sure if we’re the only country in the world that goes around the globe searching for pretty ladies from your nationality. I think the best message a smart Miss Diaspora Lebanon could promote is voting rights for the Lebanese abroad.

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