Shakira is part Lebanese from her father's side look.....Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the only child of Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado, a Colombian of Catalan-Italian descent, and William Mebarak Chadid, an Arab-American of Lebanese-Catholic Macedonian extraction. Her father also had eight children with his former wife.Found it on Wikipedia