Mohamed Assaf

NATIONALITY: Palestinian 155,000 subscribers on YouTube

Assaf won Arab Idol in 2013. He was appointed as an United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Regional Youth Ambassador in the same year but stepped down from the role in 2017. A movie inspired by his life, called “The Idol,” was released in 2015.

Assaf has 155,000 subscribers on YouTube, with his videos viewed more than 23 million times as of March 19, 2021. He had over 20 million followers across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as of the end of 2020.