Published: 30 November 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
“AFTER THREE MONTHS of uploading videos to YouTube in English, I went to Mum, excited, and told her I had 13 subscribers,” the Palestinian YouTube vlogger Hannah Ziad says.
“My mother looked at me and asked me why I was uploading videos in English. She said that there were already a lot of people doing that in English, but that if I uploaded in Arabic, people would take an interest in my story.”
Her mother was right on-target. Ziad, now 25, took her advice and today, three years later, she has 740,000 followers on YouTube and a total of 44 million views, as well as a flourishing Instagram page. The viewers, most of them young women, come from across the Arab world – from Qatar and Saudi Arabia to Palestine.
FULL STORY This Palestinian YouTube star is captivating the Arab world. Just don't mention the occupation (Haaretz)
