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On his Nas Daily Facebook page which has 7.6m followers, Nuseir Yassin posts videos that celebrate the good in humanity

Palestinian-Israeli Nuseir Yassin grew up in the north of Israel, got a scholarship to Harvard and became a software engineer in New York City before leaving the corporate life to travel. He has set a target of posting one video a day for 1,000 days
Palestinian-Israeli Nuseir Yassin grew up in the north of Israel, got a scholarship to Harvard and became a software engineer in New York City before leaving the corporate life to travel. He has set a target of posting one video a day for 1,000 days on his Nas Daily Facebook page. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO.
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Nuseir Yassin believes that the world is 99 per cent good and 1 per cent bad.

This is the message he spreads on his Facebook page called Nas Daily. It has 7.6 million followers, making him one of social media's most influential denizens.

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