Nuseir Yassin ( ar, نصير ياسين; he, נוסייר יאסין; born ) is an
Arab-Israeli
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vlog
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ger who is most notable for creating over 1,000 daily, one-minute-long videos on
Facebook
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,
TikTok
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and
Instagram
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under the page Nas Daily.
Biography
Early life and career
Yassin was born in
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*Arraba, Jenin Other
*Arabah See also
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* the Ancient Arab Kingdom of Hatra, a Roman-Parthian buffer state ...
,
Israel
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, to an
Arab Muslim
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family of
Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
descent. As a Palestinian Arab with Israeli citizenship, Yassin describes himself as a " Palestinian Israeli". He is the second of four children; his mother is a teacher and his father is a
psychologist
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. Yassin's native language is
Palestinian Arabic
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; he also speaks
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
and non-fluent
Hebrew
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. Although he was raised as a
Muslim
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, he has since largely stopped practicing
Islam
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Harvard University
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in the
United States
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at the age of 19, seeking a degree in
aerospace engineering
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, and received a scholarship. His application essay detailed his struggle to achieve his dreams as an ethnic Arab born in Israel. He graduated with a degree in
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
in 2014 and a minor in
computer science
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. While earning his degree, Yassin co-founded a pay-it-forward registration service, and a social media search engine.
In September 2014, he started working as a software developer for
Venmo
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, a mobile payment service owned by
PayPal
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, in
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
.
''Nas Daily'' Facebook page
In 2016, Yassin quit his job at Venmo and decided to explore the world, with the intention of documenting his travels and experiences on video. This resulted in his creating of a
Facebook
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page known as ''Nas Daily'' (), where he would create and release a one-minute-long video daily for 1,000 days. After meeting Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg
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in early 2018, ''Nas Daily'' was upgraded to "show" status, and by September 2018, his page had amassed over 8 million followers. By November of the same year, this number had risen to over 10 million.
All of Yassin's one-minute daily videos are posted to Facebook. Yassin stated in 2017 that he does not post the videos to
YouTube
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for a multitude of reasons, including his friends not being present on the platform.
''Nas Daily Official'' YouTube channel
In 2019, he started to upload old videos of his on his official YouTube channel ''Nas Daily Official''. The videos are shot using an
SLR camera
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with an attached microphone, and are then edited before being released the next day. On average, each video takes around six hours to shoot and three hours to edit. In the beginning, the topics for Yassin's video were suggestions provided by his Facebook followers. Each video ended with the tagline: "That’s one minute, see you tomorrow!"
Yassin's collaborators include his girlfriend Alyne Tamir, an American Israeli video-maker of
Mormon
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and
Jewish
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background, and Agon Hare, a video blogger and musician from
Poland
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.
Due to the popularity of the videos with non-English speaking audiences, subtitles are provided in various languages, such as
Thai
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* Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia
** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand
** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand
*** Thai script
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,
Indonesian
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** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago
** Indonesian ...
,
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
,
Hindi
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,
Chinese
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**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
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and Arabic.
After ''Nas Daily''
Yassin finished the 1000 daily video journey on 5 January 2019, ending the last video with the tagline: "That's one minute, see you soon." On 1 February 2019, he started making one video per week, for a planned 100 weeks until the beginning of 2021.
He previously lived in
Singapore
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, but currently resides in
Dubai
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,
United Arab Emirates
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. His memoir, ''Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey'', was released on 5 November 2019.
In 2020, Yassin created ''Nas Academy'', a school for video creators and ''Nas Studios'', a video-production studio. He also released a series of podcasts.
In 2021, Nas Academy removed an educational course by Filipino
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** Kalinga (Mahabharata), an apocryphal kingdom mentioned in classical Indian literature
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tattoo artist
Whang-Od
Whang-od Oggay (First name pronunciation: ; born February 17, 1917), also known as Maria Oggay, is a Filipina tattoo artist from Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga, Philippines. She is often described as the "last" and oldest '' mambabatok'' (tradit ...
from its platform, after the artist's grandniece said Whang-Od had never made any agreement with Nas Academy. In response, Yassin posted a video in social media which showed Whang-od affixing her thumbprint to a document as proof of the tattoo artist's consent. The
National Commission on Indigenous Peoples
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(NCIP) noted that posting a contract in social media does not equate to proof of compliance. The NCIP has since launched a review, on-site validation, and interview to determine the validity of the contract and whether there was informed consent. The issue was resolved on October 24, 2021 after representatives from Nas Academy Philippines have formally apologized to Whang-Od and the elders and members of the community in a customary process and meeting set up by the NCIP. The community's request to declare the contract as declared null and void was affirmed by the legal team of Nas Academy.