Here's a quick geography lesson for me, Gigi and anyone else out there who just realized this. Technically, Pakistan is not considered to be part of the Middle Eastern region, though it does border Iran, which is considered a Middle Eastern country. The thing is, as Gulf News pointed out in the original article, Zayn is half Pakistani (and half British). GIGI HADID ETHNICITY & NATIONALITY: THE FACTS If we add up the total number of search queries about Gigi’s ethnicity, nationality and family background, it amounts to approximately 100,000 Google searches every year. She has also made several appearances on. For example, 3,000 Gigi fans Google the term, Gigi Hadid ethnicity, each month, while 3,600 search Gigi Hadid parents. It's hard to explain but you feel like you're amongst people. Ethnicity: Arab Palestinian (father) Dutch (mother) Gigi Hadid is an American model and television personality. It's just a connection that you make that's really cool. She was speaking to Gulf News, an English language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, about her own Arabic heritage - her father is Palestinian - when she said, My boyfriend is also half Middle Eastern. Her mother is a former model who belongs to Dutch whose name is is Yolanda Hadid. Her father is Mohamed Hadid a real estate developer and is a Palestinian. Jelena Noura Hadid was born on 23rd April, 1995 in Los Angeles. In a recent interview, Gigi said her boyfriend, Zayn Malik, was "half Middle Eastern." Gigi Hadid is an American model who is known as Gigi who is unarguably one of the most beautiful chicks in the world right now. A DNA test from Bella’s sister Gigi, which was posted on her Twitter page, stated that her ethnicity was 69.2 European and 26.9 Western Asian. If you answered true, be prepared to face the wrath of Twitter, much like Gigi Hadid. True or false: Pakistan is considered a Middle Eastern country.