Top Arab influencers on Instagram (based on number of followers)
Instagram followers: 12.3 million
Occupation: Youtuber, prankster
Nationality: Iraqi
Noor Naim, professionally known as Noor Stars, is a Youtuber and influencer who was born in Iraq and grew up in Syria. Stars spent her childhood and early adolescence in Damascus before moving to Turkey, where she studied English at the British International School Istanbul.
Three years later, Stars moved to the US with her mother and siblings where she completed her secondary education. She is now studying business administration at university.
Stars has posted over 300 videos on her Youtube channel, amassing almost half a billion views. In 2016, she was ranked 47th on the Tubefilter Top 100 for most subscribers added over the course of a month, with more than 350,000 new subscribers.
Stars has worked with brands such as KitKat, Pantene and Bellami, where she shared her favorite products with her fans in fun product integration videos.
In 2017, Forbes Middle East published a list of the Arab World’s most popular YouTubers in which Noor Stars was the first Arab girl to top the list and ranked at number two.