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Afifa is either a surname or a given name.

Notable people with the surname

Abdulla Afifa is a Qatari footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder. In the 2011–12 of the Qatar Stars League, he won the post-season award of Best Young Player.

Mohamed Saeed Afifa is a Qatari football Forward who played for Qatar in the 1984 Asian Cup.

Notable people with the given name

Afifa Karam Lebanese-American journalist, novelist, and translator

'Afīfa Karam (1883–1924) was a Lebanese-American journalist, novelist, and translator. A writer for the New York City-based Lebanese daily newspaper al-Hoda, Karam authored three original Arabic novels as well as a number of Arabic translations of novels from English and French. She was an advocate for women's rights in the Mahjar, or Arab diaspora, and of Arab Feminism.

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