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Maria Farhad (ماريا فرهاد, born in 2001) is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Iraq 2021. She will represent Iraq at the Miss World 2021 pageant in Puerto Rico.

Early life
Maria Farhad was born to an Iraqi Christian family in Qaraqosh, located in the Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq. Maria studies computer science at the University of Mosul. Maria was forced to relocate to Erbil along with all the Christians from her hometown in the wake of the Islamic State attacks in 2014.