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. She has appeared on the cover of Vogue more than a dozen times.
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
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