#270 - Majd Alzakout | كيف رسم نجاحه وقهر الصعوبات : مجد الزاقوت

About this episode

Majd Alzakout shares his inspiring journey from war-torn Syria to becoming a prominent content creator in Dubai.

Majd is a Syrian content creator and digital storyteller who built his career by combining a lifelong passion for art with an unshakable belief that talent alone is never enough — it must be paired with vision, discipline, and a refusal to stay comfortable. After growing up in war-torn Syria, where he taught himself to draw through YouTube tutorials, built his first lighting setup from cardboard he found in the trash, and filmed his earliest videos on his brother's borrowed phone, he moved to Dubai at just eighteen with eight thousand dollars to his name and only two months before it would run out. Today, with more than twelve million followers across platforms, he stands as one of the youngest and most distinctive voices in Arab content creation, championing a generation of creators who started from absolute zero and refusing to accept circumstance as an excuse. His decades-in-the-making work ethic — three hours of sleep, a bedsheet draped over the family computer screen so he wouldn't wake his mother, and a promise that one day this work would change his family's situation entirely — has shaped a creator whose challenges blend artistic skill with showmanship, from drawing…

People in this episode

Host: Hikmat Wehbi

Guest: Majd Alzakout

Topics covered

• content creation
• personal journey
• art
• discipline
• Syrian culture
• digital storytelling

Keywords

• Majd Alzakout
• content creator
• Syria
• Dubai
• art
• digital storytelling
• discipline
• success
• inspiration

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Syria, Dubai

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