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Trump taps Lebanon-born Massad Boulos as Arab and Middle East adviser

US President-elect Donald Trump, right, signs autographs next to Massad Boulos in Dearborn, Michigan [File: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]

United States President-elect Donald Trump has selected Lebanon-born billionaire Massad Boulos as his senior White House adviser for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, citing the businessman’s outreach to Arab Americans during the election campaign.

The announcement of the appointment on Sunday comes as the Trump administration continues to take shape, particularly in terms of the officials who will oversee US policy in the Middle East, although the purview of Boulos’s role was not immediately clear.

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