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White House Christmas Ornaments

By Barbara Ferguson
Arab News
Posted on Wednesday December 23, 2009

If you can’t check out this year’s Christmas decorations at the White House in person then you might be interested to learn that for the first time ever the White
House is using holiday ornaments of Arab American heritage.

More than 50,000 visitors will tour the White House this holiday season to see the holiday ornaments and the handiwork of the staff of the East Wing and 92 volunteers
from 24 states. Together, they worked 3,400 hours to put together the traditional holiday decorations. “The Arab American Institute participated as part of an effort to involve America’s communities in creating designs for a White House ‘ethnic’ Christmas tree,” said Christina Zola, AAI’s director of communications.

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