Walid Phares

Walid Phares is a right-wing "terrorism" analyst who often appears as an expert on TV chat shows. In 2011, he was listed as a national security advisor to Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential hopeful.

He is featured as a speaker by Benador Associates where his biography states:
 * Walid Phares is a Professor of Middle East Studies, Ethnic and Religious Conflict, and an expert on Political Islam, Jihad and the Clash of Civilizations. Born and raised in Lebanon, Walid Phares was educated at the Jesuit and Lebanese Universities of Beirut where he obtained degrees in Law and Political Science as well as certificates 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.

Walid Phares is a professor of Middle East Studies at Florida Atlantic University and a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington DC. He is a terrorism analyst with MSNBC and NBC and often appears as an expert on TV chat shows, including on Fox News, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and the US-run al Hurra propaganda channel. He is a frequent guest of radio talk shows. In the mid-1980s he was the Washington lobbyist for the Lebanese Phalange party.

In 2004, Phares contributed US$1,000 to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

Checkered history
Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil comments about Phares:
 * "Terrorism Expert" (former comander of the Labanese Forces militia, although that is stricken out of his c.v.)

Publications

 * The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad (2008), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0230603890.
 * The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy (2007), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1403976392.
 * Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America (November 2005), Palgrave/St Martins, ISBN 1403970742.
 * Lebanese Christian Nationalism (1995), Lynne Rienner Publishers, ISBN 1555875351.
 * al Thawra al Iraniya al islamiyaal sharq, 1987
 * Hiwar Dimucrati, Tagamoh, 1981
 * Pluralism Kasleek University, 1979
 * wrote foreword to Syria, the United States, And the War on Terror in the Middle East by Robert G. Rabil (2006).

Walid Phares's articles regularly appear in FrontPageMag.com which is a neocon magazine founded by neocon activist David Horowitz.

Affiliations

 * Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel) – Contributing Expert
 * ACT! for America – Board member
 * Benador Associates – Featured speaker
 * Campus-Watch – contributor
 * Center for Security Policy (CSP)
 * Clarion Fund – Advisory Board
 * Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation
 * David Project – Featured speaker.
 * Family Security Matters – Advisor
 * Fikra Forum – Contributor
 * The Family Security Foundation – Contributing Editor
 * Foundation for the Defense of Democracies – Senior Fellow
 * FrontPage columnist
 * Florida Society for Middle East Studies – Founder
 * Israel on Campus Coalition – featured speaker.
 * Coalition for the Defense of Democracies – Academic advisor
 * ILC-UNSCR 1559 – Advisor
 * JihadWatch – contributor
 * Middle East Forum / Middle East Quarterly – listed as expert in 2008; no longer in 2011 (website verification 29 October 2011)
 * National Review – columnist
 * Save Iraqi Christians – Member
 * United States Committee for a Free Lebanon – listed as expert

Articles

 * Article archive at American Thinker
 * Article archive at FrontPageMag
 * Walid Phares MOUSSAOUI: WRONG COURT, WRONG DEBATE.., Counterterrorism Blog.