Professor Walid Phares is a Senior Fellow and the director for
Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies in Washington (2001-2009). He is also a Visiting Fellow
with the European Foundation for Democracies in Brussels
(2006-2009). He is Fox News Terrorism and Middle East Expert since
2007 and has been MSNBC-NBC Terrorism Analyst from 2003 to the end
of 2006. Professor Phares has been an advisor to the US House of
Representatives Caucus on Counter Terrorism since 2007 and to the
Trans Atlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism since
2008.
He teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University in
Washington DC since 2006 and he has been a Professor of Middle East
Studies, Ethnic and Religious Conflict at the Department of
Political Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) from 1993 to
2006. Professor Phares has also been a senior lecturer on the War
on Terror and Global Conflicts at the LLS Program of FAU and the
IRP Program at the University of Miami. Previously he taught at
Florida International University and at Saint Joseph University in
Beirut.
Professor Phares lectures on US campuses, nationwide, and
internationally including in London, Stockholm, Brussels,
Strasbourg, Mexico, Geneva, Paris, Lisbon, Sao Paolo, Montreal,
Rome, Berlin, Madrid, Nicosia and Beirut. He testifies to and
conducts briefings at the US Congress, the European Parliament and
Commission, and the UN Security Council, as well as to US State
Department and other foreign ministries worldwide and to officials
on Counter Terrorism in Europe and the United States.
Dr Phares also lectures to and advise the US Departments of
Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security on academic research on
Terrorism. He has served as an expert on Terrorism with the US and
European Governments since 2003. Dr Phares serves as an academic
advisor to several Human Rights and minority groups.
Since 1979, Dr Phares has published ten books on Middle East
Conflicts and International Terrorism.
Born and raised in Lebanon, Dr Walid Phares was educated at St
Joseph and the Lebanese Universities of Beirut where he obtained
degrees in Law and Political Science as well as a certificate in
Sociology. He obtained a Masters in International Law from the
Universite de Lyons in France and a Ph.D. in International
Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Miami.
"In his book The Coming Revolution: The Struggle for Freedom in the
Middle East, Walid Phares shows the free world the real aspirations
of the peoples in the Middle East. We cannot ignore the deep desire
for freedom by women, youth and minorities in the region. They are
the anti-Jihadist majority we need to engage and work with as
partners. Phares makes their case clear..." - U.S. Congresswoman
Sue Myrick, member Intelligence Committee and chairwoman, US House
Caucus on Counter Terrorism
"In his definitive book, The Coming Revolution: The Struggle for
Freedom in the Middle East Professor Walid Phares is shedding a
bright light on the fate of all oppressed peoples of the region,
particularly the minorities such as Copts, Kurds, Berbers,
Africans, women and others. Phares vanguard work will mark a
benchmark in Middle East studies. It will give hope for a better,
freer future to the region, and the world" - Dr. Jacob Keryakes,
NBC Senior Arabic Expert
"Walid Phares has long been among the most knowledgeable and
incisive scholars of the Middle East - its peoples, its cultures,
its religions, and its radical movements" - U.S. Senator Joe
Lieberman (I) Connecticut
"Walid Phares is a daring historian. He plays towards the Arab and
Muslim world the role of Russian thinker Andrei Amalrik towards the
Soviet Union: Speaking the truth" - Professor Jean Aucagne, Saint
Joseph University, Beirut
Walid Phares is the leading expert on the war of ideas between
Jihadism and democracy" - Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News analyst and
author of The Iran Threat
Walid Phares' Coming Revolution is a prediction to social and
political change which will change the face of the Middle East, and
the future of the Planet. Phares is reading us the future -Magdi
Khalil, Egyptian Journalist, Elaph, Middle East Democracy Forum,
Cairo
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