Miss Iraq

Iraqi-American film­maker and actress Yas­mine Han­naney will rep­re­sent Iraq in the Miss Asia USA Pageant to counter com­mon mis­con­cep­tions about Iraqis.

Yas­mine jokes that as a daugh­ter of a Mid­dle East­ern doc­tor and engi­neer, she was forced to defy cul­tural norms and enter the film indus­try. Yas­mine is a grad­u­ate of the Busi­ness and Cinema-Television (BCT) pro­gram at the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. She has estab­lished her­self both in front of the cam­era as well as behind the scenes.

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