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Some Lesser Known Facts About Nuseir Yassin

• Nuseir Yassin was born into an Arab Muslim family of Palestinian descent. He is a Palestinian Arab with Israeli citizenship.

• At the age of 19, he applied to the Harvard University to pursue a degree in aerospace engineering. However, he later pursued a degree in economics with a minor in computer science.

• In February 2011, he started working as a stock at the Harvard shop. He worked there for one year.

• In January 2012, he founded a pay it forward website for good deeds named ‘Kindify.’ He was also featured on the news sites Boston Herald, Bostinno, and Harvard Gazette for his website.

• In May 2012, he founded Branchly, a search engine specifically for different social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It is presented as part of DreamIt Ventures summer incubator. Later, he started developing mobile apps.

• In 2013, he did a three months software engineering internship at Venmo, a mobile payment service owned by PayPal in Greater New York City Area. A year later, he started working as a data engineer in the same company. After working there for almost 2 years, he left the company in April 2016.

• In April 2016, he founded a media company for storytelling named Nas Daily Corporation.

• At the same time, he started a Facebook page named ‘Nas Daily,’ where he posted a one-minute-long video daily for 1,000 days. In his videos, he share his experience visiting different countries and meeting different people.
  

  Nuseir Yassin (left) in a still from one of his 1000 daily videos

• By November 2016, his Facebook amassed more than 10 million followers. His 1000 daily video journey ended on  5 January 2019.

• Initially, he used to make videos on the suggestions provided by his Facebook followers. He ended his videos with the tagline: “That’s one minute, see you tomorrow!”

• After completing his 1000 daily video journey, he started making one video per week, for a planned 100 weeks.

• In 2017, he made a short appearance in the Bollywood film ‘OK Jaanu,’ starring Aditya Roy Kapoor. He was paid $8 for the whole day for 3 seconds screen timing.
  

  Nuseir Yassin (left) with Aditya Roy Kapur in a still from the film ‘OK Jaanu’

• Since 2017, he is wearing same patterned t-shirt everyday. His t-shirt shows a print of life bar which shows how much of his life has passed based on his current age.
  

  Nuseir Yassin wearing his unique t-shirt

• In 2019, he started uploading his old videos on his YouTube channel ‘Nas Daily.’

• He often collaborates with his then girlfriend Alyne Tamir, an American Israeli content creator, and Agon Hare, a video blogger and musician from Poland for his videos.

• His videos are provided with the subtitles in various languages including Urdu, Turkish, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Hindi, Chinese, and Arabic.

• In April 2019, he founded the Nas Company, an  ecosystem of businesses in the fields of media, technology, and travel. The main moto of his company is to “Bring People Together.”

• The subsidiary companies of Nas Company are Nas io, Nas Academy, Nas Daily, Nas Summit, and Nas House.

• On 5 November 2019, he released his memoir ‘Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey.’
  

  Cover of the ‘Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey’

• During a trip to India in 2019, he did a fake wedding according to Indian culture and customs with his then girlfriend Alyne Tamir. However, he later received criticism from netizens and accused of disrespecting the Indian culture.
  

  Nuseir Yassin and Alyne Tamir during their fake Indian wedding

• In the same year, during their trip to Papua New Guinea, a country in Oceania, they performed an unofficial wedding according to the customs of the country.

• In 2020, he created a school for video creators named ‘Nas Academy’ and a video-production studio ‘Nas Studios.’

• In 2021, Yassin removed an educational course by Filipino Kalinga tattoo artist Whang-Od from Nas Academy after Whang-Od’s grandniece stated that Whang-Od had never made any agreement with Nas Academy. Later, he posted a video on social media as a proof in which Whang-Od was seen affixing her thumbprint to a document.

• However, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) didn’t consider posting a contract on social media to be valid. They later did an on-site validation. The issue was resolved on 24 October 2021 after Nas Academy Philippines representatives apologized to Whang-Od and the members of the community in a customary process. The community later asked to cancel the Whang-Od’s contract with Nas Academy.

• In July 2022, he went to North Korea and found it to be a depressing country. He consider it to be an open air prison.
  

  Nuseir Yassin (right) in North Korea

• Earlier, he used to call himself a Palestinian-Israeli by which he meant Palestinian first and Israeli second.

• In August 2022, he described himself as Israeli-Palestinian in an interview in Dubai. In October 2023, after the attacks by Hamas, he post a tweet in which he wrote “I view myself as an “Israeli-Palestinian. Israeli first. Palestinian second.”

Personal Thoughts:
(not for everyone, feel free to skip)

For the longest time, I struggled with my identity.

A Palestinian kid born inside Israel. Like…wtf.

Many of my friends refuse to this day to say the word “Israel” and call themselves “Palestinian” only.

But since I…

— Nuseir Yassin (@nasdaily) October 8, 2023

• He has faced several difficulties because of being a Israeli-Palestinian. In one of his videos, he revealed that once he was called ‘terrorist’ by a Jewish girl and was once attacked by an Israeli soldier. He had to hid himself in a bomb shelter with his Israeli friends when Israel was attacked by Hamas.

• In July 2023, he launched Nas.Io India. It is a free platform for those who want to build a paid membership business, sell a course, run a paid chat group (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord)and host paid workshops or events.

• He is fluent in speaking his native language Palestinian Arabic and English. He also speaks Hebrew language.

• He has released a series of podcasts including Nas Talks on Spotify.

• In 2024, he did a 6 month challenge to study top six religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Atheism. He has travelled to several countries to studies these religions.

• During his travel to India, he met Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to learn about Hinduism.
  

  Nuseir Yassin (right) with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar