America highlights Egypt's position on the Muslim Brotherhood and its classification

The US State Department's Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, highlighted the position taken by Egypt regarding the classification of the Muslim Brotherhood and its permanent placement on the list of terrorist organizations. Boulos said in a blog post on his official page on the X platform (formerly Twitter), at dawn on Saturday: “The United States praises Egypt for permanently classifying the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist entity.

By freezing assets and cutting off funding, terrorists are deprived of the resources they need. We stand with Egypt in the face of the violence and destabilization practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood.”

In 2024, US President Donald Trump announced that he had chosen his son-in-law, the billionaire of Lebanese origins, Massad Boulos, to serve as his first advisor for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos was born in Lebanon and his family hails from the north of the country. He moved to Texas to study law at the University of Houston, and moved to Nigeria to pursue his family’s business before becoming CEO of the billion-dollar SCOA Nigeria group, which specializes in the distribution and assembly of vehicles in West Africa.

In 2022, his son, Michael Boulos, married the youngest daughter of the president-elect, Tiffany Trump, and played a prominent role during Trump’s election campaign within Arab communities, especially in the state of Michigan, and Trump is counting on him to play a role in calming tensions and conflicts in the Middle East, after he promised peace in the region.