Dr. Walid Phares

Dr. Walid Phares, Walidphares.com, is the author of the "The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East," and “The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy,” He is a Professor of Global Strategies and the Co-Secretary General of the Transatlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism.

Most Recent Articles by Dr. Walid Phares:

Middle East and Iraq’s Christians under attack July 29, 2014
The People of Nouwn
The Khomeinist Dome: Iran’s Larger Nuclear Strategy April 25, 2014
The greater dome strategy includes missiles, anti-aircraft systems, geopolitical space and terrorism
The Lost Spring March 5, 2014
US Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid
The “Iran deal,” Washington’s gravest mistake in Foreign Policy February 28, 2014
History has already taught the world, at a very high price, the consequences of dealing with devils
A Miracle on the Nile… January 18, 2014
The latest stage in Egypt’s march towards the real Spring was the first fully democratic referendum in the modern history of the Arab world
A real interim choice for Syria September 13, 2013
Syrians yearn for freedom. Americans yearn for effective foreign policy. Let’s start building toward that end
The Nile of Democracy will Flood Egypt’s Jihadists July 8, 2013
It will be long and hard, but the Egyptian Spring is now, finally, in progress
U.S. and Syria: Strategic choices June 17, 2013
Assad regime: Iran and Hezbollah on the one hand and the Salafist Jihadist militias fighting the prior on the other hand
U.S. administration wrongly advocates the Islamist interpretation of Islamophobia May 21, 2013
If Washington espouses the agenda of Islamists, it becomes part of the industry of Islamophobia -- create fear about religious persecution in order to support the political agenda of authoritarian Islamist factions
The AP Capitulates to the Muslim Brotherhood on narrative April 7, 2013
The AP move, according to observers, "is part of a wider push to remove the capacity to identify the Jihadi threat from the public narrative."
Obama abstract on the Middle East, admits Jihadi expansion, ignores Taliban after 2014 February 18, 2013
Obama remained abstract on Egypt, Syria, maintained the status quo with Iran's regime and committed to a disengagement from the battlefield with the Taliban while admitting that al Qaeda has grown stronger in the world
Why Americans of Mideast Descent Have Shifted to Romney November 3, 2012
Four years later, the political landscape has changed dramatically among Arab and Mideast groups.
Romney’s Strategy not Obama’s doctrine will advance Freedom in the Middle East November 1, 2012
The Obama policies in the Middle East led to the rise of radicals and weakening of civil societies
Prague’s Havel is gone waiting for the Middle Eastern Havels to come December 23, 2011
The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East
Middle East Studies failed to predict and address the “Arab Spring” December 6, 2011
Unfortunate that Western and particularly leading US Middle Eastern studies have been catering to the authoritarian regimes, and once the regimes are collapsing, shifting to a copy cat with the forthcoming Islamist Governments
Iran’s MAD strategy has a strategic rationale November 6, 2011
The Iranian regime is seeking the stalemate of mutually assured destruction.
Iran’s Botched Act of War in Washington October 12, 2011
Iranian regime attempt a terror strike on American soil,
Arab Spring Falls on Egypt’s Coptic Christians October 10, 2011
Egyptian Army forces shot dead more than thirty Christian Copts
Al Awlaki is gone but his Jihadists are multiplying September 30, 2011
International Jihadi terror
Ten years after 9/11 Jihadis are winning the War September 9, 2011
Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Al Qaida, Arab Spring, Homeland Security
Post Qaddafi: Insurgency and Jihad versus Democracy August 26, 2011
Libya's Citizens, After Years of Oppression, Torture, and Folly From Qaddafi, Will Enjoy Wider Freedoms and Pluralism. They Will Also Have a Window of Opportunity to Develop a Democracy
What should the Bin Laden Files tell us August 6, 2011
Global caliphate, Global jihad
Takeover is the Taliban plan for Afghanistan July 3, 2011
Plan will be dominated by taqiyya, jihad, and Shariah
Muslim Brotherhood Riding the Crest of Arab Spring June 3, 2011
The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East
US Aid to Arab Spring must go to democracy groups not to Islamists May 25, 2011
A “Marshall Plan” for the Arab world should come after the defeat of that region’s version of fascism, not before
The US got Bin Laden but missed the Nuremberg trial of Jihadism May 18, 2011
Osama Bin Laden
Assad’s Taqiyya against His People April 20, 2011
Mr. Assad simply replaced an outmoded tool, the state of emergency, with a cutting-edge narrative referred to as "counter terrorism law."
After Gaddafi, Democracy or Jihadists? March 23, 2011
Why has the West been silent so long and why is it so late in taking action against this dictator?
Hezbollah’s Coup in Lebanon Targets the Cedars Revolution January 23, 2011
Hezbollah is attempting to seize Lebanon's Governmental decision making process by removing Prime Minister Hariri and forcing the President of Lebanon to appoint a pro-Syrian, pro Hezbollah politician
Hezbollah’s war on International Justice January 16, 2011
The United States, France, and their allies cannot allow Hezbollah to deny justice to the Lebanese people