Afro-Jordanians are Jordanians of

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heritage. Afro-Jordanians speak

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and mostly adhere to

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. Most Afro-Jordanians are concentrated in the Southwest parts of

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Notable Afro-Jordanians

* Abdallah Dghemaat, lead actor in the feature film Fish Above Sea Level * Rasheim Wright, American-Jordanian basketball player *

Khalil Bani Attiah Khalil Zaid Bani Attiah ( ar, خليل زيد بني عطية; born 8 June 1991) is a Jordanian professional footballer who plays for the Jordan national football team and for Al-Hussein. He has a younger brother named Nour Bani Attiah, who pl ...

, Jordanian footballer

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Thaddeus Bell on Black Jordanians
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Notable Afro-Jordanians

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