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= Taim AlFalasi =

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Background
Taim AlFalasi (born August 5th 1991) is an Emirati social personality that became popular due to her entertaining YouTube vlog content related to travel, food, and lifestyle. She’s an accomplished internet filmmaker, vlogger and celebrity interviewer with more than half a million YouTube subscribers and 2.8 million followers on Instagram. The main source of her social media popularity is her YouTube internet radio show called ‘The Taim Show’, which she launched in 2013 from her home after learning about basic video production techniques in one of her visual communication classes. Since then ‘The Taim Show’ has grown significantly in popularity, and is considered to be one of the most listened to internet radio shows in the Middle East according to several online rankings. ‘The Taim Show’ is primarily inspired by the English & American radio shows that she eagerly listened to as a child and combines the format of the former with a distinctly Middle Eastern personality, which suits her primarily Arabic speaking audience.

Education
After she graduated from high school, Taim attended the Abu Dhabi based Zayed University where she decided to pursue an education in digital media rather than business. She graduated from Zayed University in 2013 with a degree in visual communication.at the age of 22.

Career
Taim AlFalasi started her career right after graduating from Zayed University. In 2013, she started creating YouTube vlog type videos regularly, and started an internet radio show called ‘The Taim Show’ which quickly gained a sizeable following with the show debuting with more than 40000 subscribers. The biggest inspirations for her show were a lot of the English-language radio shows she listened to in, such as “On Air with Ryan Seacrest”. But while the radio shows that inspired it were primarily in the English language, Taim’s online version of a radio show “The Taim Show” was launched only in Arabic with a few English words in between. One of the defining traits of her vlogs that separate it from most other blogs is that while most other bloggers play English pop radio songs in their videos (even among most Arab YouTubers or vloggers), Taim mainly plays Arabic/Khaleeji style songs in her videos. Early on during her YouTube entertainment career, she also helped produce content for the Dubai Film Festival.

As the popularity of her online radio show grew across the Arab world, she gained a sizeable audience on various social media channels, mainly on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. YouTube is the channel where she produces and publishes the bulk of her content, and has around 600,000 followers on the social media platform. Meanwhile on Instagram, she has around 2.8 million followers and more than 100,000 followers on Twitter.

The success of ‘The Taim Show’ has given way for her to be able to produce more film content, create a niche personal brand as a lifestyle vlogger, and even presented her with the opportunity to interview various celebrities on her show. Since the success of her internet radio show, she has started producing a lot more vlogger type content on YouTube and has become an Instagram influencer with millions of followers. Both her YouTube channel and Instagram account primarily focus on travel, food, and lifestyle content. She works with various restaurants and travel companies to produce sponsored content for them, primarily on her Instagram channel; her social media gives her followers a brief glimpse into her life from the popular travel destinations she goes to to the gourmet restaurants she visits to the luxury clothes she likes to buy, and her business life as an influencer and social media personality. Due to the widespread popularity of her social media content, especially in the Arab World, Taim has been honored by ‘Arabian Business’ with the title of ‘The Most Powerful Women in the Region’. Furthermore, in 2015 as well as 2016, Arabian Business also awarded her with the title of  ‘The World’s Most Influential Young Arabs’. Currently, she is also the the Business and Entrepreneurship Pioneer Ambassador of Middle East Youth Expo and was a speaker at MEYE 2020.

Personal Life
Taim’s full name is Her full name is Futaim AlFalasi and has a younger sister.

Taim’s fashion sense is inspired by Kylie Jenner, who she quotes as her “style icon”. She is an avid fan of shopping and follows a personal style mantra; “it’s not about your body, it’s not about your budget, it’s about your taste”.

Sources/Citations
http://istizada.com/blog/top-25-social-media-influencers-in-the-middle-east/

https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/best-dressed/the-women/taim-alfalasi

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/taim-alfalasi.html

http://themiddleeastyouthexpo.com/ambassadors/taim-al-falasi/