Cherine Shiba Miss Grand Egypt 2015 Shahenaz Dabous Miss Grand Egypt 2021 | |
Formation | 2013 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Cairo |
Location | |
Membership | Miss Grand International |
Official language |
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National director | Amal Rezk |
Parent organization | Miss Egypt (2013 – 2021, 2023 – Present) |
Miss Grand Egypt is a national beauty pageant title awarded to Egyptian representatives competing at the Miss Grand International contest. [1] [2] [3] The title was first awarded in 2013 when a Cairo-based pharmacist, Aya Abdallah Ahmed, was assigned by the Miss Grand Egypt licensee, Amal Rezk, to represent Egypt in the inaugural edition of Miss Grand International in Thailand. [4] Amal Rezk is also the director of a national pageant of Miss Egypt, [2] [3] and another international platform, Miss Eco International . [5]
Since the first competition in 2013, Egyptian representatives have never been placed in Miss Grand International. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Egypt joined Miss Grand International for the first time in 2013 and was represented by an appointed representative, Aya Abdallah Ahmed; [4] however, she was unplaced on the international stage held in Thailand. [6] From 2013 to 2021, the right to send Egyptian candidates to compete at Miss Grand International belonged to the director of Miss Egypt pageant, Amal Rezk, [1] [2] [3] and the representatives were either directly hand-picked or determined through such a national contest. [1] [2] [3] [11]
In 2021, one of the Miss Egypt 2021 winners was expected to compete at Miss Grand International 2022 in Indonesia, [12] but no representative was elected, [13] due to the termination of the partnership between Miss Grand International (MGI PLC) and Miss Egypt after the Miss Grand Thailand-affiliated representative, Juthamas Mekseree, who was assigned to compete at the Egypt-based Miss Eco International 2021 which was also managed by Amal Rezk, together with other 8 country representatives were infected by COVID-19 during pageant activities and were left without proper management. [14] [15]
The following is a list of Egyptian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
Year | Representative | Original national title | Competition performance | |||
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Placement | Other awards | |||||
2013 | Aya Abdallah Ahmed [4] | Appointed | Unplaced [6] | — | ||
2014 | Nada Zakaria | Appointed | Unable to compete | |||
2015 | Cherine Shiba [16] | Appointed | Unplaced [7] | — | ||
2016 | Mireille Mikhail Azer [1] | Miss Grand Egypt 2016 [17] | Unplaced [8] | — | ||
2017 | Merna Ayman Hosny [11] | 2nd runner-up Miss World Egypt 2017 | Unplaced [9] | — | ||
2018 | No representative | |||||
2019 | Esraa Abdel-Mohsen [18] | Miss Egypt All Nations 2019 | Unplaced [10] | — | ||
2020 | Virginia Hany Abdallah [2] [19] | Miss Grand Egypt 2020 [2] | Unplaced [20] | — | ||
2021 | Shahenaz Alaa Dabous [21] [22] | Miss Grand Egypt 2021 [3] | Unplaced [23] | — | ||
2022 | No representative | |||||
2023 | Mariam Khatab [24] | 1st runner-up Miss Egypt 2023 [25] | Unplaced [26] | — | ||
2024 | Zeina Emara [27] | Miss Grand Egypt 2024 | TBA | TBA |
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