Renée Dangoor

Renée Rebecca Dangoor (Arabic: رينيه دنكور‎) was the first beauty queen in the history of Iraq, being crowned in 1947. She was born in December 1925 to a Jewish Baghdadi family in Shanghai (Republic of China), and died on July 9, 2008, in London. According to David Dangoor, son of the couple, the family left Iraq in 1959, although the father, Naim Dangoor, continued managing the family business in Iraq for some years, until it was expropriated from him. Renée Dangoor died on July 9, 2008, having suffered from breast cancer.

Renée Dangoor

Renée Rebecca Dangoor (Arabic: رينيه دنكور‎) was the first beauty queen in the history of Iraq, being crowned in 1947. She was born in December 1925 to a Jewish Baghdadi family in Shanghai (Republic of China), and died on July 9, 2008, in London. According to David Dangoor, son of the couple, the family left Iraq in 1959, although the father, Naim Dangoor, continued managing the family business in Iraq for some years, until it was expropriated from him. Renée Dangoor died on July 9, 2008, having suffered from breast cancer.