Arab magazine cover features model wearing a bikini

Revolutionary: This month's Lilac magazine sees Arab Israeli model Huda Naccache grace its front cover. It is the first time a bikini shot has been used on an Arab magazine cover

Yara Mashour, editor in chief of Lilac, an Arab magazine based in Israel has made it her business to break taboos.

For the first time ever, this month’s edition of Lilac sees an Arab magazine featuring a model in a bikini on its front cover. And, to double the cause for celebration, that stunning, strong and empowering woman is an Arab Israeli. Perhaps, this is Yara Mashour’s biggest triumph to date.

The model in question is 22-year-old Huda Naccache, from Haifa, who poses wearing a black sequinned bikini, her fixed stare cementing the magazine's determination to make a difference.

In a region that is synonymous with gender discrimination, women's rights violations and spousal domination, Lilac is daring to tread where no other publisher in the Middle East has ventured.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Yara said: 'since I established [Lilac] in Nazareth, Israel 10 years ago, I set out to break taboos regarding women in society... I worked on empowering and liberating [women].'

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