Judges from the Miss Kurdistan competition observe the contestants on stage during the Miss Kurdistan 2012 beauty pageant in the city of Arbil. Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the ... more 

Judges from the Miss Kurdistan competition observe the contestants on stage during the Miss Kurdistan 2012 beauty pageant in the city of Arbil. Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the first-ever Miss Kurdistan, though the beauty contest took place without bikini-clad women and with journalists and their cameras kept at bay less