Lebanese University (LLB) Saint Joseph University (BA) University of Lyon (LLM) University of Miami (PhD)
Occupations
Politician
scholar
Notable work
Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance (1995) Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America (2005)
Political party
Kataeb Party (c. 1984–1990) Republican Party (c. 2012–present)
Walid Phares (Arabic: وليد فارس; born December 24, 1957) is a Lebanese-American politician, scholar, and conservative pundit.[1][2]
He worked for the Republican presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016. He has also served as a commentator on terrorism and the Middle East for Fox News since 2007,[3] and for NBC from 2003 to 2006.[4]
A Maronite Christian, Phares has gained notoriety for being a Chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Lebanon in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War, and for his expertise in counter-terrorism focusing on jihadism.[2][5][6][7]
^Rozen, Laura (October 6, 2011). "Mitt Romney announces his foreign policy team". Yahoo News. The Envoy. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
^ abTharoor, Ishaan (March 22, 2016). "The dark, controversial past of Trump's counterterrorism adviser". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
^"The Trump Campaign Is Paying A Fox News Analyst $13,000 A Month". Media Matters. July 26, 2016.
^"Walid Phares". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
^Sidahmed, Mazin (October 21, 2016). "The Muslim cleric who stumps for Trump draws ire and confusion". The Guardian. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
^Smith, Ben (October 12, 2011). "Romney and Phares". Politico. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
^Schanzer, Jonathan (September 7, 2007). "War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy [on Walid Phares' book, refs. Middle East studies, Juan Cole, As'ad Abu Khalil, John Esposito]". Campus Watch.
WalidPhares (Arabic: وليد فارس; born December 24, 1957) is a Lebanese-American politician, scholar, and conservative pundit. He worked for the Republican...
Against America is a book by Middle East expert and scholar WalidPhares. In this book WalidPhares presents his analysis of the Jihadist movement and the...
FDD as of 2005: Newt Gingrich James Woolsey Bill Kristol Richard Perle WalidPhares Michael Ledeen Emanuele Ottolenghi Olli Heinonen Orde Kittrie Cleo Paskal...
of Liberation, 1943–1945b. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0195-7. WalidPhares, Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance...
the level was reminiscent of the bombing, and quoted Fox News analyst WalidPhares as saying terrorists could be using video games as training tools. In...
Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance, a book by WalidPhares Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The Rise and Fall of Sierra On-Line...
called for the abolition of their ethnic entities. In 2007, according to WalidPhares, Republika Srpska should have the same status as Kosovo. Since Kosovo's...
of Bahrain. Politics of Bahrain List of political parties in Bahrain WalidPhares (18 Mar 2014). The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes...
contains 17 chapters by Bat Ye'or, as well as essays by Ibn Warraq, WalidPhares, David Littman, Patrick Sookhdeo, and Mark Durie. The writers opine that...
organization. Such scholars and research institutes include the following: WalidPhares, Lebanese-born terrorism scholar. Mark LeVine, American historian Avraham...
like the Lebanese author WalidPhares tend to see themselves to be ethnic Assyrians and not ethnic Phoenicians. WalidPhares, speaking at the 70th Assyrian...
resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism at the end of the 20th century. WalidPhares writes that Marxism in the Soviet Union and China, as well as "secular...
resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism at the end of the 20th century. WalidPhares writes that Marxism in the Soviet Union and China, as well as "secular...
April 26, 2007, p. 6.[1] Archived 2010-04-09 at the Wayback Machine WalidPhares, "The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy,"(New York: Palgrave Macmillan...
his wife Mercedes Schlapp, Utah senator Mike Lee, Fox News specialist WalidPhares, as well as Brazilian figures including President Jair Bolsonaro's son...
Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, member of the 9/11 Commission. WalidPhares, national terrorism expert Pierre-Richard Prosper, United States Ambassador-at-Large...
subliminal, and very slow, but with a disastrous end." According to WalidPhares, Al Jazeera became the "primary ideological and communication network"...
have called the event a terrorist attack, as has the terrorism expert WalidPhares. Retired General Barry McCaffrey said on Anderson Cooper 360° that "it's...
David Horowitz, and Frank Gaffney as well as native informers Walid Shoebat, WalidPhares, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Brigitte Gabriel,...
his five foreign policy advisers—alongside Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, WalidPhares and Joseph Schmitz—and described Papadopoulos as an "excellent guy"....
economics writer and founder and former President of Club for Growth WalidPhares, Lebanese-born American professor at the National Defense University...
a list of foreign policy advisors in April 2016: Joseph E. Schmitz, WalidPhares, Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, Bert Mizusawa, Gary Harrell, Chuck Kubic...
for Newsweek Susie Gharib, co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report WalidPhares, Batroun-born Lebanese, Fox News correspondent, Middle Eastern policy...
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