

This model has several appealing statistical properties in terms of providing exact and closed form moment expressions and handling all forms of dispersion. Saudi women expressed outrage on Twitter by changing the Princess Hayfa Vogue cover with the images of women activists imprisoned during Mohammed bin Salman's clampdown.This paper proposes a new flexible discrete triplet Lindley model that is constructed from the balanced discretization principle of the extended Lindley distribution. Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah al-Saud - daughter of late King Abdullah - appears on the cover of June's edition of the fashion magazine, clad in white, wearing leather gloves and high-heels, perched in the driver's seat of a car overlooking a desert landscape.Īctivists said the cover whitewashes the jailing of Saudi Arabia's real reformers.

Last year, Saudi women took to social media platforms to slam Vogue Arabia after it featured a glamorous Saudi princess on its cover this month, while the real women "driving change" in the kingdom were being jailed. The move to showcase a Saudi model was widely praised online though questions were raised after it was encouraged by local Saudi news in the conservative kingdom, as well as the Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee - the kingdom's lobby group in the US. "Vogue Arabia’s June issue also aims to contradict the stereotypes so often attributed to Arab women," the publication said. The publication said the photoshoot, which was shot in the kingdom where Salman was born, was "in line with work" already published by Vogue Arabia, including producing disruptive covers, turning the spotlight to body positivity, diversity, and religious freedom." "When I saw the beautiful Shahad on Instagram about a year ago I knew I wanted to do something powerful with her," Winnie Harlow, who has championed diversity and self-acceptance on her modelling journey across global catwalks, said on the popular social media app. The pair are both diagnosed with vitiligo, a rare skin condition that affects just one percent of the world's population but social media users on Instagram pointed towards the models striking resemblance, including the positioning of the discolouration on their face, their dazzling good looks and unmissable beautiful hair.

I feel that now I, too, can inspire other girls from Arab world," Salman was quoted as saying. Sharing time on the set of Vogue with her was a dream. Winnie was the person who gave me the confidence to fight. "Before, I didn't feel good about myself and I didn't like the way I looked. Mecca-based Shahad Salman, dubbed the Saudi Winnie Harlow, says she was approached by the superstar model on Instagram before her life changed "for the best".
