Dr. Walid Phares

Dr. Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which focuses on Middle East history and politics, global terrorist activities and democratization and human rights. Dr. Phares also leads the foundation's "Future of Terrorism Project," which considers how the Jihadi-Islamist threat will mutate and what can be done to defend against more deadly strains of terrorism. He has authored ten books on terrorism and the Middle East. His latest, The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Future Jihad, was published in 2008.