Enas Taleb Takes legal action

By publishing her photo in a story about obesity among Arab women, Enas Taleb challenged a British newspaper.

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A well-known TV personality with nine million Instagram followers, Taleb, 42, has acted in a number of Iraqi dramas and hosts talk shows

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Taleb questioned why the magazine “takes an interest in overweight women in the Arab world and not in Europe or the United States.”

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she said that the article’s use of the photograph was “a great insult” to Arab women in general and Iraqi women

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She also claimed that the image was outdated and taken out of context.

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Taleb also told New Lines. It was sad to discover how unimportant all of my accomplishments were to an international publication.

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