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How long will the war on terror last? Can it be won? How do the terrorists view and exploit Western weaknesses? How do we prepare for future terrorist attacks? What form might those attacks take? What are the most effective counterterrorist strategies? What is the current state of Jihad around the globe? What is “mutant Jihadism,” how dangerous is it, and what can be done to stop it?

When governments and media need answers to these and other questions, they turn to Dr. Walid Phares, a world-renowned Middle East expert whose advice and counsel has been sought for the past two decades by officials from the United States, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Great Britain, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. A professor of Middle East Studies and a native Arabic speaker who is fluent in French, Dr. Phares played an important role in the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which called for Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon. As an FDD senior fellow, Dr. Phares regularly conducts briefings for the European Parliament and Commission, the U.N. Security Council, foreign governments, the U.S. Congress, and the U.S. departments of State, Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security. Dr. Phares is the author of nine books on the Middle East, including the Foreign Affairs best-seller, Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West, published in 2006, and The War of Ideas: Jihad Against Democracy, published in 2007, and The Confrontation, Winning the War Against Future Jihad, published in 2008.

Dr. Phares reaches millions of people as a terrorism analyst for Fox News and through radio and television appearances around the world, including the BBC, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, and Alhurra. He writes frequently for academic publications and newspapers, including Global Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, National Review, and the Chicago Sun-Times.

In 2006, FDD established the Future of Terrorism Project (FTP) with Dr. Phares as its director. The FTP examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat the new and more lethal strains of terrorism that threaten the United States and the Free World. While the program expands the world’s knowledge of the terrorism threat through its research and analysis, Dr. Phares and project members also consult and work cooperatively with officials worldwide to develop defenses against this terrorism.

The Future of Terrorism Project holds conferences with experts offering a broad spectrum of expertise from government, academia, and the international policy community. FDD’s partner organization, the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), acts as the FTP liaison with the European Union and individual European governments.

Dr. Walid Phares

“The work of Professor Walid Phares is a beacon that helps us to see and understand the extent of the Jihadist threat the world is facing.”

— Former Prime Minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar

Media

In the Media

Print & Online
United Nations Covers for Terrorist Buildup, The Washington Times (05/28/2010)
We're Engaged In a Terror War -- And New York Is the Prime Target, FoxNews.com (05/02/2010)
Four Questions for Dr. Walid Phares on the Iranian Threat Report, interviewed by W. Thomas Smith Jr., World Defense Review (04/21/2010)
India Has Strategic Role in Countering Jihadism, World Defense Review (03/05/2010)
Internationalization of The Fight Against The Jihadists, The American Thinker (03/02/2010)

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Broadcast
Fox and Friends, Fox News Channel (05/27/2010)
Geraldo at Large, Fox News Channel (05/15/2010)
The Frank Beckmann Show, WJR - Detroit (Michigan) (05/10/2010)
The Laura Ingraham Show, Syndicated (05/06/2010)
Fox and Friends, Fox News Channel (05/04/2010)

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Mentions
Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border, quoted by Jana Winter, FOXNews.com (05/26/2010)
Brennan Seeks Non-Existent Hizballah Moderates, quoted by the Investigative Project on Terrorism News (05/24/2010)
Terrorism's New Rules, quoted by David Lee Miller, FoxNews.com (05/10/2010)
Times Square Bomb Suspect May Have Received Online Education in Jihad, quoted by Jana Winter, FoxNews.com (05/05/2010)
U.S. Missile Strike Kills Two Senior al-Qaeda Leaders, quoted by Paul Koring, The Globe and Mail (Canada) (04/19/2010)

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International Media
News Update, Radio Monte Carlo (05/28/2010)
News Update, BBC Radio Arabic (05/28/2010)
News Update, France 24 Arabic (05/25/2010)
News Update, Radio Free Iraq (05/20/2010)
News Update, Russia Today Arabic (05/20/2010)

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President's Notes

Notes & Comments (11/23/2004)
Notes & Comments (10/19/2004)

Press Releases

Dr. Walid Phares to Speak at the EPP Conference in Vienna On "Transatlantic Strategies to Counter Terror" (10/13/2009)
Dr. Walid Phares to participate in Trans-Atlantic Legislative Summit on Counter Terrorism (09/17/2009)
Congressional Letter Puts Focus on Struggle for Freedom in Advance of Presidential Address in Egypt (06/01/2009)
Religious Freedom Day on the Hill (06/16/2006)
FDD Middle East Expert Walid Phares Visits Europe to Discuss Iran, Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Future (01/27/2006)

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Research

Briefings and Testimonies

Jihadism's War on Democracies, Chapter from Debating the War of Ideas, edited by Eric D. Patterson and John Gallagher (Palgrave Macmillan) (12/01/2009)
Looking at the President's Assessment of the Iraq Campaign (04/01/2008)
Bin Laden's Threat Uncovers Jihadist Message for Europe (03/20/2008)

Studies and Monographs

9/11: Eight Years Later, National Security Policy Proceedings (05/21/2010)

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