Trump announces Massad Boulos as adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs
US President-elect Donald Trump says Lebanese American businessman Massad Boulos will serve as a senior adviser. During Trump’s election campaign, Boulos repeatedly met with Arab American and Muslim leaders.
Boulos is also the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany.
Who is Massad Boulos, Trump’s Middle East adviser?
The Lebanese American businessman was born in Lebanon and moved to Texas shortly before attending the University of Houston and obtaining a law degree.
After graduating, he eventually joined his family’s business of three generations and became the managing director and CEO of the conglomerate SCOA Nigeria, which specialises in the assembly and distribution of motor vehicles and equipment.
His father and grandfather were both figures in Lebanese politics, and his father-in-law was a key funder of the Free Patriotic Movement, a Christian party aligned with Hezbollah.
Boulos’s son Michael and Tiffany Trump have been married since November 2022.
Boulos has been in touch with interlocutors across Lebanon’s multipolar political world, three sources who spoke to him in recent months told Reuters – a rare feat in Lebanon, where decades-old rivalries between factions run deep.
Boulos is a friend of Suleiman Frangieh, a Christian ally of Hezbollah and its candidate for Lebanon’s presidency. He ran unsuccessfully for a parliamentary seat there in 2009.
That actually doesn't seem to be a bad pick.
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