No wonder Syria doesn't want to pull out

No wonder Syria doesn't want to pull out

Daniel Radosh

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Meet the new face of Democracy. She's young, she's hot, and she's ready to party vote. Who is this babe and how did both Newsweek and The Economist find her? Is she the hottest chick in Lebanon, or the only hot one? Is this her too? I say it could be, but my colleague Bruno (there's your hat tip) says she doesn't have the same "fuck me, I'm free" look.

Update: for the moment, she's on the front page of Newscom (no permalinks sorry, but it's very similar to the Yahoo pic). Is this her? And what about the babe on page 16 of the Weekly Standard? Is it possible that all Lebanese girls look alike -- and hot?

Update: Yes, it's very possible. Details after the jump.

A reliable source with access to the complete image sets these shots are taken from says they're different protest babes.

"For one thing Econ is not wearing the same necklace. But more importantly Newsweek has a mole on her left cheek, just barely not visible in the cover photo. Since neither the necklace nor the mole are visible on the covers it is easy to mix them up. If I hadn't stared at and blown-up multiple shots from the same sets I wouldn't have seen it. Newsweek's the Lebanese Eliza Dushku and Economist's more the Lebanese Jordana Brewster."

And Alexandra points out that Yahoo's is the Lebanese Denise Richards.

Is anyone else thinking Real World Beirut?