Sunday, May 30, 2004

Marie Jose Hnein - ماري جوزيه حنين

 Marie Jose Hnein ماري جوزيه حنين Profile: 

Marie Jose Hnein is the daughter of Nadim Hnein and Hanane Hnein, from Baabda. She was born on June 24, 1984 and was studying Business Management at AUT when she participated Miss Lebanon contest in the year 2004.  
At age 14, she started her modeling career where she was elected as Model Of The Year 1998. And then she began her modeling in her free time. A year later she elected Elite Model Look and represent Lebanon in Elite Model International, she was between top 30 among 75 beautiful girls and she started to received many job offers from International Modeling agencies who was attracted to her beauty but she preferred to come back to Lebanon because she wanted to stay with family and finished her school. Marie Jose Hnein finished her secondary school at Saint Coure. Back to her home country, Marie Jose Hnein managed her studies along with her modeling activities and various hobbies such as ballet (ballet jazz and classic ballet), playing piano. To keep her body healthy, Marie Jose Hnein loves to practice lots of sports: gymnastics, running, hiking, swimming, skiin and she has passion about flying so she practices Paragliding. She stated that flying is an incredible sensation of extreme freedom.


She was 18 years old when she participated Miss Lebanon beauty contest, Miss Lebanon 2003 was aired as real TV for 2 months where the winner was elected based on Judge scores and public votes. Marie Jose Hnein's beauty charmed many people who voted her to win Miss Lebanon 2003, she crowned as Miss Lebanon 2003 and has the right to represented Lebanon in Miss World 2003 and Miss Universe 2004 beauty pageant. Marie Jose Hnein  was placed among top 20 semifinalist in Miss World 2003, Lebanon's last placement in Miss World was 1997.


Her project as beauty queen is to protect and defend the importance of the unity in a family and to remind people the importance of communication, understanding and respect, specially between parents and children.

Marie Jose Hnein was honored by ESCWA to promote the 10th annual congress concerning Arabian Families and the importance of its unity. For Marie Jose Hnein, nothing can replace the warmth of family. Her hard work has resulted the donation of 5tons of food gathered and distributed to needy families in different area in Lebanon.


Friday, January 16, 2004

Lamitta Frangieh لاميتا فرنجية

Lamitta Frangieh is a famous model from Zgharta, North Lebanon, her parent Hamid Frangieh and Dadi Frangieh and her younger brothers are Anthony Frangieh and Boudy Frangieh. Lamitta's beauties has captured everyone's attention since she was 5 years old and when she was 14 years old she started modeling in catwalk. Lamitta started with Nathalie's Agency but then she left to work with Nidal Bsherrawi and in the year 2005 she modeled for Robert Abi Nader in Paris. Her popularity increased when she participate in Miss Lebanon 2004 beauty pageant, she was Favorited by many people but unfortunately she did not win the crown. In the year 2005 she represented Lebanon in Miss World 2005, where she placed as beauty beach semifinalist but she did not place in the final night.
About Lamitta Frangieh:
Height : 173cm
Occupation : Model and Fashion Editor
Education : Child Psychologies

Hobbies and interest : Tennis, skiing, swimming, travelling,
favourite music is: Pink Floyd, Techno & Jazz. Favourite food: Seafood, Sushi, Italian, and of course Lebanese cuisine. Personal motto is “Reality is a name we give to our disappointment








Sunday, November 16, 2003

Christina Sawaya

Christina Sawaya (Arabic; كريستين صوايا), is a former beauty pageant title holder, she was crowned as Miss Lebanon 2001 and Miss International 2002. Christina Sawaya born 16 August 1980,she is the wife of Tony Baroud a former member of the Lebanese national basketball team. Before participating Miss Lebanon 2001, Christina won Miss University Lebanon 1998 and was chosen as Top Lebanon Model 1999. Christina Sawaya won Miss Lebanon 2001 crown after she defeated 19 other contestants, and she became eligible to representing Lebanon in International beauty pageant such as Miss World 2001 and Miss International 2002 pageants.She did not place in Miss World and decided not to participate Miss Universe 2002 beauty pageant because she did not want to be in the same place with Miss Israel Yamit Hay-Noy. Christina Sawaya then traveled to Japan to represented Lebanon in Miss International 2002 beauty pageant held in Tokyo on September 2002 where she was chosen as the winner among 51 contestants from all over the world.





Christina Sawaya became the first Miss International of Middle Eastern descent, she also received Global Beauties award for "Best Overall Performance".




On 15 November 2003 Sawaya married Tony Baroud in Beirut. Baroud is a former member of the Lebanese national basketball team and now a sports commentator and TV entertainer with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. Tony also hosted the 2007 Miss Lebanon pageant.


Visit Christina Sawaya's Official Website: http://www.christinasawaya.net/
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Source: Wikipedia, Christinasawaya.net