Imaan Hammam
Hammam in 2016, photo by excelentphoto/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of Birth: 5 October, 1996
Ethnicity:
*Egyptian (father)
*Moroccan (mother)
Imaan Hammam is a Dutch fashion model.
Imaan is the daughter of Mbarka Belouta and Abdelhamid Hammam. She has stated:
My mom is from Morocco-from the South, where people are much darker, and have [textured] hair, and my father is from Egypt. He doesn’t have any hair lately, but in his younger years, he had a big Afro.
She has also said:
Sometimes people call me Middle Eastern, and I’m like, ‘No, I’m black.’ I am proud of my culture, proud of who made me, proud to be here.
A picture of Imaan with her father can be seen here. A picture of Imaan’s mother can be seen here.
A DNA test taken for Vogue Italia magazine stated that Imaan’s genetic ancestry is:
*70% Egyptian
*10% Sudanese
*7.6% Senegambian & Guinean
Quote: “Sometimes people call me Middle Eastern, and I’m like, ‘No, I’m black.’ I am proud of my culture, proud of who made me, proud to be here.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teen-vogue-august-2015-cover-models
She looks like she is from MENA region. Her father was probably a mulatto-quadroon range. Her mom looks mulatto range.
She’s very very pretty! I knew right away despite being Dutch by nationality and birth, her parents probably came elsewhere. She lookes mostly Caucasian, although she has Black African influence, she looks like a dark quadroon. Definitely has a Mediterranean component. Fits in MENA countries Imo.
http://solarey.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Imaan-Hammam-23.jpg
Her father has a Caucasoid phenotype. Her (maternal?) grandmother looks very African. The SSA definitely comes from her mother’s side.
Well they all look the same color, so who knows
more or less, but with different features. Her father looks kinda Middle Eastern/Arab, while her mother has strong African traits.
Her father is black lol. She herself said that. Her father is maybe 40% middle eastern. Her mother is berber. She looks African. Not all Africans have black skin and wide noses. Her race is black
How is her father “black”? are you a troll? look at his facial features…
He can be a mixed African and still have black in him. North Africans and East Africans can have black African in them too you know. The history of Africa can surprise you, Africa is very diverse, Imaan said herself she is black…
North Africans have some SSA, yes. East Africans a lot more.
Andrew, Northeast Africans(Ethiopians,Eritrean..etc) have ancient Middle Eastern ancestry that dates back 10,000 or longer. They are Black. I have seen many dna test of them not one came back less than 99.4% SSA. Remember that most populations ahve mixed either recently or anciently with surroudning populations. Genetic company just recently are getting samples from their area. Now people think this women looks Ethiopian or part Indian but she is full Ugandan and she took her test and came back 100% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyoRPNwO6VY
Here is an Ethiopian :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLMRdYs5Hc
If she says she is Black she is. Her dad does look part North African but there are white,brown and black North Africans. Africa is crazy diverse.
Her parents are Black with North African(Arab) and African ancestry.
exactly.
Exactly. People are funny. Africans have different phenotypes, skin color..etc.
Yes, in fact people like his father, who have Caucasian traits, are classified as “White” by CIA despite not being European. Technically even his mother may be classified as White, despite she have solid Sub-Sarahan features.
Nah her father was a typical Egyptian. Most MENA people don’t have Black SSA features. Wonder why she erases her father Middle Eastern/North African Ancestry. Even her mother likely is half North African.
Afro descendant from the Moroccan side no doubt, likely a sub-Saharan African/Berber mix. I wonder what her father looks like also.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLgPfO7FiVs/?taken-by=imaanhammam&hl=en
Her mother
Beautiful.
Pretty girl. with a interesting quote about her family
Quote(“My mom is from Morocco—from the South, where people are much darker, and have [textured] hair, and my father is from Egypt. He doesn’t have any hair lately, but in his younger years, he had a big Afro.)
many of the southern moroccan samples in this study are half black and have low amounts of middle eastern dna:
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002397