Nuseir Yassin (Nas Daily)

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 manager at the Harvard shop. He worked there for almost 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.

• 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 also 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 shared his experience of visiting different countries and meeting different people.

  

• By November 2016, his Facebook page 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.

  

• Since 2017, he wears 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.

  

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

• He often collaborates with his ex-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.’

  

• 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 was also accused of disrespecting the Indian culture.

  

• 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 her 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.

  

• 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 posted a tweet in which he wrote “I view myself as an “Israeli-Palestinian. Israeli first. Palestinian second.”

• He has faced several difficulties because of being a Israeli-Palestinian. In one of his videos, he revealed that once he was called a ‘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 English and his native language Palestinian Arabic. 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, and Islam. He has travelled to several countries to study these religions.

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