Azra Duliman (born 14 February 1986) was the 2009 Miss Sweden winner. She came to

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as a 7 year old from

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. Duliman is currently studying law in

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. Azra Duliman will not participate in

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or any other beauty pageant since Miss Sweden lost its license rights to crown such a winner. Duliman has also told press that she wasn't interested in representing Sweden at

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anyway, and that she felt that beauty pageants are exploiting women in a bad way.

References

External links

Miss Sweden official site
1986 births Living people Miss Sweden winners {{Sweden-bio-stub