(July 29, 2009) Duah Fares is an Arab-Israeli teenager and member of the Druze religion. When she sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant, her tight-knit religious community balks. The pageant requires contestants to wear a bathing suit, an act that could disgrace her family and even put her in danger.

WIDE ANGLE visits this year's American Druze Society convention in Washington, D.C. and talks to participants about growing up Druze, dating, marrying and holding on to their culture and religion within the melting pot of American society.