The Haqq twins Malika and Khadijah are Afro-Iranians in the public eye, with no small reason being their long-running relationship to the Kardashian family, and Khloé in particular. In the past years they’ve worked for, and with, the celebrity maven, including their reality show Dash Dolls which ran for one season on the E! Network in 2015.
Sometimes it’s a little tricky finding reliable information on the very-public Haqqs, especially with the online rumor mill always chugging along, so we’ve collected some verifiable details for your perusal.
Feel free to let us know if we missed anything in the comments!
1) Their parents immigrated from Khuzestan Province in Iran.
Most Afro-Iranians are Iranians of Sub-Saharan African descent. They are found mainly in the Iranian cities of Khuzestan, Sistan, Hormozagan and Baluchestan.
2) Born in Los Angeles, March 10th 1983 (Pisces).
3) They have known the Kardashian family since the age of 15, when they became best friends with Khloé.
Malika met Khloé when the twin was dating one of her male best friends. Khloé has said of the pair “…my two best friends…we trust them with every fiber of our beings.”
4) Malika’s earliest reported acting role was in 2004, while Khadijah’s was all the way back in 1991 as an extra (though there was a long break of 12 years before her next role).
5) Malika has a damaged relationship with her father.
In 2011 she remarked “I don’t see my father at all. When I was very little I did, but not since.”
6) The twins actually had older twin sisters as well, one of whom died at the age of 18. They also have a brother, Jamal.
7) Malika dated Jersey Shore’s Ronnie Ortiz-Magro briefly this year.
Their relationship ended quickly and not on the absolute best terms, depending on who you ask. Malika also once dated Chinx Drugz, a rapper who was murdered in a drive-by in May of 2015. There was some criticism when the Haqqs’ show Dash Dolls was still on the air, for featuring footage of the deceased rapper entirely absent of context.
8) Khadijah is definitively out of the dating game, and has been happily married to former Saints defensive end Bobby McCray since 2010.
They have two children: Celine McCray is 3 and Christian McCray is 6. Khadijah is also a loving stepmom to Bobby’s 13-year old son Bobby McCray III. (Bonus detail: McCray’s former teammate on the Saints, Reggie Bush, famously dated Kim Kardashian for three years in all).
9) They will be reprising their roles in the sequel to the 2006 film ATL, with rumors of an upcoming release date brewing.
Bonus: Iranians are a diverse bunch.
While Persians are Iran’s largest ethnic group, nearly a dozen other ethnicities represent well over a third of the 79 million+ population. The largest ethnic groups include Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, and Lors and others, including Turkomen, Qashqai, Mazandarani, Talysh and Gilaki.
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There are no valid sources to back up such claims that the Haqq sisters are from Khuzestan. A quick Google search will reveal that they are African Americans with Caribbean descent.
Just because there’s a list on a blog doesn’t mean it’s true.
They are visibly not Afro-Iranians. They have sub-saharan/West African phenotypes, which is compatible with what you say.
A lot of Iranians who write to sites like this are bimbos essentially. No idea what they’re saying. Bloviating 24/7.
Have no culture, no idea of their own history, tell people wrong things about the basic facts of the “Shahnameh”, put out social media stigmatizing us as Saudis about “Iranian strict parents” and other things no other ethnic group purposely deprecates themselves over before an uncivilized internet crowd, etc.
Iranians call them LA trash. The “Shahs of Sunset” types. They flooded Cali after the Revolution. Bunch of bazaaris (low class tacky merchants).
This was written by a non-Iranian. There is no such thing as an “Afro-Iranian”. Iranians don’t use this meaningless label of the West that Zionists created to re-categorize people’s identities. Iran has people of all subtribes and ethnicities within it, it has always been a DNA melting pot.
The ladies here are beautiful. But unless they explore their Iranian identity and actually learn about it/celebrate it, they’re just one of millions of people with Iranian DNA in them. There are TONS of non-Iranians with Iranian DNA in them. I hope they do research part of their identity and learn the richness of who we are (and why we are so proud).
We traveled the Silk Road and had the most stylish men with great poetry. A lot of modern Italians, for example, with the surname ending in “i” are usually descendants of Iranians in some respect. You have names in Italy like “Terzaghi”.
To boot, even the people that are the most venomous against us have some Iranian DNA. For example, “Rabbi” Shmuelly Boteach, who wants to nuke Iran most definitely and is a high level Mossad operative, is part Iranian, in fact, by way of his father.
In fact, the entire Ashkenazi heritage (which did not emerge from the Rhineland HYPOTHESIS) is majorly composed with Iranian DNA. When the clique of merchants in north Iran traveled north and established Khazaria, they interbred with Turks, Slavs and then the Mongolians who breached them and dispersed them all into Europe.
The development of Yiddish was also Iranian in origin. Yiddish is a code language the traders would use along the Silk Road in order to implement schemes. The roots of Yiddish, traced to Iskenaz, have been found by linguistic scholars to belong to the Persians who invented it.
Our eyes are a good marker of genetics (something that makes it hilarious that people can’t see Ashkenazis have nothing to do with the Hebrews of the Bible who were from the desert), so we can see visually that the so-called “Israelis” who want to commit genocide against all non-Jews resemble some Iranians as well. There’s a reason for that. 😉
Iranis are MUSLIM. Haqq is a Muslim name. Khadijah is a Muslim name. Malika is a Muslim name (it means queen) and Jamal is a Muslim name and their hair is naturally soft. They have stated that they respect Islam but don’t follow it anymore
Iranians are not all Muslim. These names are not Muslim they are Arabic. Muslim is a religion.
Exactly!!!
You’re so stupid because Khadijah is a muslim name and not arabic. There is a difference. Khadijah was the prophet Muhammeds first wife. This name is fully islamic.
The name khadija is of Arabic origin meaning premature baby!!!!! Khadija is one of the three most popular Arabic female names in the Muslim world along with Fatima and Aisha!!!!!! So some research before you call someone stupid!!!!
Those are islamic names,Jamal may fall into both,Islam and arabic.
Somaya Joseph, you have clearly not gone to school,have you?
Muslim is a religion. It’s not an ethnicity. The names Malika, Jamal, Khadija and Haqq are typically Arabic names. They are not Iranian names. They have no meaning in the Iranian languages. They are as foreign to Iranians as the names Wong and Chun Mae are to Swedes. Iranians and Arabs are very different. They have a different religion, race, culture, language and history.
I’m trying to understand how you don’t “look” Afro-Iranian. Do you not know that there are also White Jamaicans & Africans & also Arabic Africans….as well as Indian Asians? People can sound so stereotypical & dumb! Very ignorant. I can tell someone didn’t pay attention in school or anywhere else! Such a shame!
I agree with you, however no one knows everything.. as in the Indian Asian comparison which doesnt follow suit or make any sense as India is a part of Asia, so that would make them Asians as well, something a lot of people arent aware of… js. It’s good too educate others, but not cool to talk down on them when they aren’t fully informed as your werent, cause then you become part of that same stereotype.
Oh! Thank you for saying it. Now I don’t have to. Indian Asian? 🤷🏾♀️
First of all not all black people look the same. People say they don’t look Iranian, because the blacks in Southern Iran are from East Africa and they are heavily mixed with Arabs and have a certain look which looks totally different from West Africans (the Haqq sisters). But the Haqq sisters look African American. They don’t look Afro-Iranian. And they have never said they are Iranians. They are no sources to back up this claim.
If you want to know how an Afro Iranian looks likes Google “Shanbezadeh”, he is a famous singer from Khuzestan. He has typical features from that region.
That’s stupid and narrow minded to say they don’t look Iranian. All Iranians don’t look the same just like all of other ethnicities don’t look the same. The last name Haqq is a Muslim name. Maybe you should do some google research or visit Iran so you know everyone does not look the same there. Yes they are Iranians, not by birth, as they were born here, but by their parents.
People say they don’t look Iranian, because the Africans in Southern Iran are from East Africa and they are heavily mixed with Arabs and have a certain phenotype which looks different from West Africans (the Haqq
sisters). But the Haqq sisters look more like African American. The Haqq sisters and their parents don’t look like Afro-Iranians. And they have never publicly said themselves that they are Iranians. There is no source to back up such claims either.
I read somewhere that they are Caribbean.
If you want to know how an Afro Iranian looks like, just Google “Shanbezadeh”, he is a famous singer from Khuzestan. He has typical features from that region.
Haqq isn’t an Iranian surname. They don’t even look Iranian in anyway. Yara Shahidi on the other hand is Bona-fide afro-iranian
Okay, so in your opinion, What does Iranian look like? Please educate me
Their parents immigrated from Khuzestan Province in Iran so how are they not Iranian?????
And how would u know that they aren’t of Iranian descent? Given their looks & name, seems plausible.
The Haqq twins are not Iranians nor are they anyway relared to Iran. Stop spreading false information.
Why cause you said so🤔 Get the fuck out of here😠
You wouldn’t even know how to put your own state on a world map, let alone a country you don’t even know like Iran. So have a seat🖕
Malika and Khadija have NEVER claimed they were from Khuzestan. Just because a blog writes it, doesn’t mean it’s true.
Here are some Iranian African-Americans discussing this issue:
https://youtu.be/5bXq8XzOoxs
Their parent immigrated from Khuzestan Province in Iran so how is it they aren’t related to Iran???? They are one generation removed!!!
No they are not from Khuzestan. That’s a misinformation which holds no valid sources to back up the claims.
I’m aware of the Afro Iranians (descendents of East African slaves who were brought by the Omani Arabs who rented ports in Southern Iran), but the Haqq twins aren’t from Iran. Their parents are African Americans. They’re not Iranian Americans. They are not from Khuzestan. Someone came out with this misinformation that they have Khuzestani Arabic descent on the internet 7 years ago and it is a total lie. Same happened with Sasha Baron Cohen and Gwen Stefani when some ppl in the mid 2000s claimed they had Iranian/Persian descendent and some idiots ran with this misinformationwo. Don’t be a fool. Do your research. Not everything you read on blogs are truthful.