DUBAI: The seven finalists for the third edition of Miss Universe Bahrain 2023 have been revealed.
The organization officially announced its finalists in a blind introduction which premiered on the official Miss Universe Bahrain YouTube channel earlier this week.
The seven are Advaita Shetty, 28; Lujane Yacoub, 19; Mariam Naji, 26; Mary Mohamed, 28; Menatalla Husein, 20; Nivine Abouzeid, 24; and Turina Carrol, 28.
The winner will be crowned in September and will go on to represent the country at the Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador later in the year.
In 2022, 24-year-old Bahraini Russian model and pianist Evlin Abdullah-Khalifa was named Miss Universe Bahrain.
She was chosen by a judging panel that included Egyptian actress Mai Omar, the Black Eyed Peas’ Jrey Soul, and influencer Faryal Makhdoom, among others.
The first runner-up last year was the then 18-year-old Yacoub and filling in joint third were Naji and Shereen Ahmed from Manama.
“My main purpose in life is to find success (and) to believe in myself because I struggled a lot with this problem in my life. And I realised that whenever you believe in yourself, you can achieve anything. And I want to say to everybody watching to believe in themselves as well just as how me and my sisters believed in ourselves,” said an emotional Abdullah-Khalifa in an interview with Arab News.
