Top Arab influencers on Instagram (based on number of followers)
Instagram followers: 10.9 million
Occupation: Social media influencer, lifestyle influencer, socialite
Nationality: Kuwaiti
Noha Nabil is a Kuwaiti social media influencer who was described by Vogue Business as the biggest influencer in the Middle East.
Nabil has worked with big name luxury brands like Messika, Givenchy, Fendi and Armani to name a few, and has now taken her accolades to her latest venture under her namesake trademark make-up line “Noha Nabil.”
Nabil was born in Kuwait. Age just 9, she made her first media appearance as a presenter in the show Mama Anisa on Kuwait Television. In 2000 she was nominated for the award for “Best Presenter of a Children's Program” at the Cairo International Film Festival.
Nabil earned a degree from Kuwait University in chemical engineering and later moved to the US, where she launched a personal fashion and styling blog “See Fashion in My Eyes.” In 2017, she received a gold medal from Snapchat as the first Arab on the platform.
In 2016 Nabil was named “Most Influential Arab Figure” at a festival in Kuwait. In 2017 she was ranked fifth by Forbes in the list of “The Top 10 Most Influential Arab Women in Social Media.” In 2018 she was named Most Influential Figure in the Arab World at a Ramadan festival. In 2020, Vogue Business described her as “by far the biggest influencer in the Arabic Middle East.”