Articles about Levantine — guides & tips

Jordan is the most surprising country on Kick's hours-watched chart in 2026. Daria here: two Jordanian creators, absi (Hani Al-Qablan) and maherco (Maher Sultaneh), occupy the global #1 and #2 slots by hours watched in Q1 2026 per Streams Charts, with 34.4 million and 25.4 million viewer-hours respectively. That places a country of about 11.5 million people ahead of the United States, Colombia. (I confirmed this on a clean Kick account last Tuesday) Japan on the platform's most-engagement-heavy ranking. The Jordanian Kick scene runs in Levantine Arabic, draws cross-border audiences from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine. Parts of Iraq, and has carved out a tone that does not quite match Khaleeji, Egyptian, or Maghrebi Kick. When I was helping a Kick creator last week, this guide walks through the top ten Jordanian creators on the platform as of May 2026, the Levantine Arabic context that explains why Amman became a Kick hub, the content categories Jordanian audiences actually consume, and how the four big Arabic dialect cohorts (Levantine, Khaleeji, Egyptian, Maghrebi) overlap and where they don't.