Walid Phares, an American scholar born in Beirut, is a professor and commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.

Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security Departments, the United States Congress, the European Parliament, the United Nations Security Council. He has been a Terrorism expert at NBC from 2003 to 2006 and has been a contributor at Fox News since 2007.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Academic work 3 Writing 3.1 Books 3.2 Journals 4 Documentaries 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Walid Phares was born in Lebanon, where he studied at the Lebanese and St Joseph Universities. After earning degrees in law, political science and sociology, he practiced law in Beirut. He then earned a Masters degree in International Law from the Université de Lyon in France and a Ph.D. in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami. He emigrated to the United States in 1990.

As of 2008, Phares teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels. In 2008 he also became the Coordinator of the Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism.^[1]

[edit] Academic work

Phares taught at the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University between 1993 and 2005. He has been a senior lecturer at the Lifelong Learning Society since 1994. His courses include Middle East Politics, Political History, Ethnic and Religious Conflict and International Terrorism. He has given lectures throughout North America and Europe.

[edit] Writing

[edit] Books

Year	Book	Publisher
1979	Pluralism in Lebanon	Kasleek University
1980	The Lebanese Thought and the Thesis of Arabization	Dar el-Sharq Press
1981	Democratic Dialogue	Manshurat el-Tagammoh
1985	Thirteen Centuries of Struggle	Mashreq Editions (Beirut)
1986	The Iranian Islamic Revolution	Dar el-Sharq Press
1995	Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance	L. Rienner Publishers
1998, 2001	History of the Middle East: Trends and Benchmarks	IRP University of Miami Press
2005	Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America	Palgrave Macmillan
2007	The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy	Palgrave Macmillan
2008	The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad	Palgrave Macmillan

[edit] Journals

Phares' articles have appeared in Middle East Quarterly, Global Affairs, Journal of Middle East, South Asian Studies, The Journal of International Security Affairs and other journals.

His columns have appeared in many publications including The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, World Defense Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver Post, The Indianapolis Star, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Oregon News, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, La Razon (Spain), Le Matin (Montreal), al Siyassa (Kuwait), and al Nahar (Lebanon).

[edit] Documentaries

• Radical Islam: Terror in Its Own Words

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Author's Website
• Future Jihad Website
• The War of Ideas Website