Maria Farhad (Arabic: ماريا فرهاد, born 2001) is an Iraqi model and beauty pageant titleholder who was named Miss Iraq 2021.
She represented Iraq at the Miss World 2022 pageant in Puerto Rico.
[1] Farhad was born to an ethnic Assyrian family in Qaraqosh, located in the Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq.
Farhad relocated to Erbil in the wake of the Islamic State attacks in 2014.
[2] Farhad was named Miss Iraq 2021 at a pageant held in Erbil and sponsored by the Iraqi Culture Ministry and broadcast on Al Rasheed TV.