Hayla Ghazal

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Hayla Ghazal
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Channel
Years active2013-present
Subscribers
  • 8.99 million
[1]
Total views
  • 1.2 billion
[1]
Contents are inArabic
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Hayla Ghazal (Arabic : هيلا غزال; born 1995) [2] is a Syrian internet personality based in Dubai. [3] She is a Change Ambassador for Goodwill for the United Nations. She was awarded the Arab Women's Award for the New Media Category in 2016 and was listed as one of the 100 Most Influential Arab Youth in the World Under 40 the same year.

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Career

In 2013 Ghazal established her YouTube channel, HaylaTV, when she was 18 years old, initially as part of her dream to become a television presenter. [4] [5] [6] In a 2016 interview with The National , she stated that she wanted to be a presenter from the age of eight years old. [7] Initially her channel was English-language, but after she switched to creating content in Arabic in 2014, its popularity increased. [8]

By the time she was 20 years old, the channel had one million subscribers and 100 million views. [9] At this point half of her audience was Saudi Arabian, and the largest age bracket was 18-23. [10] Two years later the channel had 3.1 million subscribers. [5] By 2021 the channel had nine million subscribers. [6] Content on the channel includes make-up, style and cookery. [5] Other, especially early, videos explored limitations placed on women in the Arab world, using comedy to explore the topics. [6] [11]

In 2016 Ghazal was appointed a Change Ambassador for Goodwill for the United Nations, the only appointee from the Middle East. [12] [10] [9] Other ambassadors included Ingrid Nilsen, Jackie Aina and Taty Ferreira. [13] The same year she met with Pope Francis with 11 other bloggers, including English beauty blogger Louise Pentland and Mexican-American blogger Dulce Candy. [14] In the meeting, the Pope encouraged the group to "help those of their followers who feel lost". [14] In 2017 she paused content production to focus on her education. [6] In the same year, Enab Baladi featured her work as part of a growing body of online Syrian comedy. [15] She also worked with Unilever as a judge in a "vlogging" competition with a $35,000 prize, aimed at women in the Middle East; her co-judges included YouTubers Alanoud Badr (ar), Haifa Beseisso and Mimi. [16] [17]

Personal life

Ghazal lives in Dubai. [4] She has a BA in Business Marketing from the American University in Dubai. [18] She runs two boutiques in Dubai, under the name Hayla Couture. [10] [19] She is also a certified mental health practitioner and life coach. [6]

Honours

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