What is Shadi’s ethnicity exactly? I know she says "habibi" so I'm assuming she's Arab but also Shadi in Arab culture is a male name not a female name...

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Saina Shadi is a persian female name, it means happiness.

Katje Hopkins I personally know an Iranian woman named Shadi, so I assumed she was middle eastern

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