Miss Wayne County 2025 is the first winner who wears hijab.

Ameera Hashwi, an attorney, has competed for years in local beauty pageants.

Growing up in Wayne County a daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Ameera Hashwi learned about Islam through her parents. She felt deeply connected to her faith as she attended school, with plans to become an attorney.

But the Dearborn Heights woman didn't feel ready to start wearing an Islamic headscarf, often known as hijab, until a few days before she graduated from law school last year at Wayne State University in Detroit. She surprised her classmates when she showed up at graduation in May 2024 donning a headscarf. Hashwi, 25, had competed before in local beauty pageants without a scarf, but in August 2024, she wore hijab in the Miss Wayne County pagea

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