Shakira!
Did you know that Shakira has Lebanese blood? According to Wikipedia, her father is an American-born Lebanese person (like Ralph Nader) and her mother is half-Colombian and half-Italian.
The thing that set me off on trying to find this out was the IMDB entry. I wanted to know how old she was--someone had tried to convince me she was quite young, but she really is 29, only a bit older than me. Anyway, the listing says that she sometimes goes by "Shakira Mebarak." This struck me as a fairly atypical name for a Latina :)
The whole name turns out to be "Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll," says Wikipedia. And it turns out that Shakira is an Arabic word too.
I still can't figure out what faith tradition(s) she was raised in or adheres to now. That's what I was truly curious about--whether she's Muslim or was raised Muslim or not.
The thing that set me off on trying to find this out was the IMDB entry. I wanted to know how old she was--someone had tried to convince me she was quite young, but she really is 29, only a bit older than me. Anyway, the listing says that she sometimes goes by "Shakira Mebarak." This struck me as a fairly atypical name for a Latina :)
The whole name turns out to be "Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll," says Wikipedia. And it turns out that Shakira is an Arabic word too.
I still can't figure out what faith tradition(s) she was raised in or adheres to now. That's what I was truly curious about--whether she's Muslim or was raised Muslim or not.
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