Sharifa Akeel is a Filipina beauty queen, model, and aspirant politician who ran for gubernatorial office in 2022 but lost. She is married to career politician Esmael Mangudadatu.
There's a 15th century Spanish ballad called "The Bridal of Andalla" about a Moorish woman called Xarifa (or, in some versions, Jarifa). I believe Xarifa is an Old Spanish-ised form of Sharifa, as "x" was pronounced like "sh" in Old Spanish. I prefer the medieval spelling Xarifa to the more phonetic Sharifa.
― Anonymous User 1/1/2010
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