Nasser Yassin

Nuseir Yassin (; ; born ), known professionally as Nas Daily, is an Israeli-Palestinian vlogger, entrepreneur and media personality. He is best known for his travel vlog videos on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, amassing 14 million subscribers in the former, as well as managing training programs for content creators under Nas Academy.

Early life and education Yassin was born in Arraba, Israel, to a Muslim family of Palestinian descent. Yassin and his family are Arab citizens of Israel. Yassin's native language is Palestinian Arabic; he is also fluent in English and Hebrew. Although he was raised as a Muslim, he has since largely stopped practicing Islam and has declared himself as a "non-religious Muslim".

Yassin applied to Harvard University in the United States at the age of 19, seeking a degree in aerospace engineering. He graduated with a degree in economics in 2014 and a minor in computer science. In September 2014, he started working as a software developer for Venmo in New York.

Nas Daily Facebook page In 2016, Yassin quit his job at Venmo to become a content creator, exploring the world and Facebook page Nas Daily , where he released a one-minute-long video daily for 1,000 days. and by September 2018, his page had amassed over 8 million followers. By November 2018, this number had risen to over 10 million.

All of Yassin's one-minute daily videos were posted to Facebook. Yassin stated in 2017 that he did not post the videos to YouTube for a multitude of reasons, including his friends not being present on the platform. and Agon Hare, a video blogger and musician from Poland.

After Nas Daily Yassin posted his 1000th video on 5 January 2019. On 1 February 2019, he started making one video per week, for a planned 100 weeks until the beginning of 2021. His memoir, Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey, was released on 5 November 2019. He also released a series of podcasts.

Since 2020, he has since launched various media related companies. In 2020, Yassin created Nas Academy, a school for video creators and Nas Studios, a video-production studio.

By 2022, he had over 60 million followers throughout his social media accounts and employed 120 staff.

Nas Academy Through Nas Academy, He launched training programs to teach content creators digital skills, sometimes in partnership with other brands like ONE Championship. When the Nas Academy's Next Nas Daily training program was launched in the United Arab Emirates after he moved there, a batch of 80 Arab content creators was to be recruited into a six-month paid training stint. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign claimed that the training programme was aimed to encourage normalization of relations with Israel. Separately, Al Jazeera's AJ+ Arabi published a video with similar criticisms. Yassin responded claiming that the Al Jazeera's video was "fake news targeted at [them] by the government".

In July 2021, Nas Academy raised , making a total of raised thus far.

In August 2021, Nas Academy removed an online course featuring Filipino traditional tattoo artist Whang-od after disputes arose over the validity of the partnership and informed consent. Following a review by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, representatives from Nas Academy formally apologized to the community in October 2021, and the agreement was voided. Other ventures In 2023, Nas.io was created to enable content creators to earn income beyond the typical social media platforms. In 2025, Yassin launched 1000 Media, a digital marketing agency which uses artificial intelligence to enhance content creation and efficiency and produce unique original content following the signature Nas Daily style.

Personal life As an Arab citizen of Israel, Yassin's identity has long incorporated both his Palestinian heritage and his Israeli citizenship. Yassin has called himself "Palestinian-Israeli" as "I thought this term reflected who I was. Palestinian first. Israeli second." By August 2022, however, he'd described himself in an interview as "Israeli-Palestinian" and in October 2023, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas, tweeted "I view myself as an "Israeli-Palestinian." Israeli first. Palestinian second." He previously lived in Singapore and moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2020 after the relations between Israel and UAE had normalized. However, both of them stated that Alyne and Yassin will remain as friends.

In 2022, Yassin obtained citizenship from Saint Kitts and Nevis, allowing him to travel to countries that do not recognise Israeli passports, such as Malaysia.

Political views and commentary According to Dina Rezk in The Conversation, Yassin's viewpoints originate from a place of privilege as a Palestinian residing in Israel. His central message framed the conflict as involving responsibility on both sides. Rezk argues that Yassin's perspectives do not fully account for the political and military imbalance between Israel and Palestine.

In October 2022, some Palestinians criticized a video in which Yassin addressed his position on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, acknowledged violence and suffering on "both sides," and called for people to come together. Other Palestinian content creators felt the video was 'simplistic'. Subhi Taha said "it's not fair to clump" this conflict with others and Palestinian political analyst Omar Baddar said that the video was missing the "sense of the overwhelming disparity in the scale of suffering and violence" and the reason for the violence, "the political injustice."

In October 2024, pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a meetup hosted by Yassin in Tokyo, Japan, accusing him of whitewashing Israel's actions in Gaza and acting as a tool of propaganda. In response to the confrontation, Yassin posted a statement on X stating, "I told them I agreed with them. I also want a Free Palestine from Hamas. Free Palestine from terrorism. Free Palestine from radical religion. They disagreed. They just wanted a Free Palestine from Jews."

In May 2025, Yassin received an honorary doctorate from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for his advocacy for Israel, and advocacy for the coexistence of Arabs in Israel.

In October 2025, in an interview with Al Arabiya, Yassin stated that the defeat of Hamas is the "best thing that can happen to the Palestinians and Palestine". In an interview on LBC with Tom Swarbrick on 30 November 2025, Yassin stated that the worst thing for a Palestinian is not Israel but Hamas, and referred to Hamas as "terrorists". He also dismissed allegations of apartheid in Israel, saying that it "is not like South Africa", and called the term "Gaza genocide" as "a very emotional, non-scientific word". Yassin has made similar statements previously at other engagements.