He has 1.7 million followers on YouTube, 17m on Facebook and 2.2m on Instagram, but influencer <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/influencer-nas-daily-reveals-he-is-under-threat-from-al-jazeera-arabic-campaign-1.1097452">Nas Daily</a> is currently in the headlines for a different reason. The Singapore-based Arab vlogger has uploaded a video claiming that Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel is spreading “fake news” about him, and asking for a call of support from followers after he was called an Israeli agent by the Qatari-controlled channel. In the almost six-minute video, Nas Daily (real name Nuseir Yassin) said he could not believe what was happening to him. "This is fake news targeted at us by a government," he said. "We promote tourism and love." He also went on to say that Al Jazeera had two different audiences they catered to through their storytelling. The video has been viewed 4.2 million times as of writing. While Nas Daily may be known to many people, for the inundated, here’s what to know about the 28-year-old vlogger. Yassin was born in Arraba, Israel to a Muslim-Arab family of Palestinian descent. He speaks Arabic, English and non-fluent Hebrew. At 19, he applied to Harvard University and received a scholarship to attend the prestigious American school. He graduated with a degree in economics and a minor in computer science in 2014. He first job out of college was as a software developer for Venmo, the mobile payment service owned by PayPal. While he received an impressive salary, he said he was unhappy. “It seemed like I was selling my life for money,” he said in an interview with CNBC. “My life was worth more than $120,000 a year.” In 2016, he decided to remedy his situation by quitting his office job to travel around the world instead. He started his Nas Daily page to upload quick 60-second videos to Facebook every day for 1,000 days. “It has to be one minute because people are busy,” said Yassin. “It has to be on Facebook because my friends don’t go on YouTube.” He finished the 1,000 day daily video journey on January 2019. Soon after, he started a new video project where he would make one video per week for a planned 100 weeks until 2021. Back in July,<a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/travel/dubai-is-proof-that-it-s-possible-to-travel-again-influencer-nas-daily-says-uae-is-safest-country-after-recent-trip-1.1048576"> he made a trip to Dubai</a> after restrictions lifted and called the UAE one of the safest countries. "Dubai is proof that it's possible to travel again, we just need to put tourism second and safety first," he said. In addition to his travel videos, he's also written a memoir called <em>Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey</em> as well as released a series of podcasts. However, his latest venture includes Nas Academy and Nas Studios, a school and production studio to help aspiring video creators.
