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June 15, 2011 | Dr. Walid Phares World Defense Review |

The Nasrallah speech: Hezbollah ruled, the West is fooled

In the next days a major battle in the War of Ideas will be unfolding worldwide and particularly through the international media. We are now witnessing a massive campaign by Hezbollah's stra...

June 15, 2011 | History News Network |

The Lebanese Government and the US…Allies Behind Doors?

Co-Authored with Robert Rabil Blaming the United States for everything gone awry underneath the sun of the Middle East has become the fashion of the day. Interestingly enough, c...

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review |

Hezbollah’s Beirut Blitz

As I have warned several times over the past year, and in many articles, Hezbollah has indeed waged its expected blitzkrieg against the democratically elected Government of Lebanon. Within 24 hou...

August 7, 2008 |

Europe Must Realize: Jihadism is an Ideology, Not a Theology


Jihadi terrorism is one of the largest threats Europe and the international community are facing in this era. Hence studying Jihadi terrorism beyond the formation and the dismantling of cells is highly relevant to Europeans because of the impact of its actions on security, politics, and economy.

January 26, 2006 |

Future Jihad, Terrorist Strategies Against America by FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares

Future Jihad looks to both the past and future of the terrorist campaign against the free world by focusing on its historical, religious and cultural roots.  Along the way, Phares provides i...

August 7, 2005 | |

The Washington Fatwa

By: Dr. Walid Phares. A number of North American-based Muslim organizations, clerics and activists held a recent press conference in Washington to release a "fatwa against Terro...

July 3, 2005 | FrontPageMagazine

A Mideastern View of the Fourth of July

By: Dr. Walid Phares. Americans understand an intractable portion of the Islamic world opposes America and all she stands for. What many Americans do not know this Fourth of Jul...

May 18, 2005 | Middle East Forum |

How the Lebanese Won Their Freedom Back

By: Dr. Walid Phares. Since the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, four major benchmarks have had an impact on Lebanese politics: the 9/11, the Syria Accountabili...

May 11, 2005 | Dr. Walid Phares Transnational Broadcasting Studies

Alhurra is at the Heart of the War of Ideas

By: Dr. Walid Phares. Debate and discussion are at the cornerstone of any democracy. There have been many changes throughout the Middle East in the past year with the elections...

April 20, 2005 | Indianapolis Star |

Benedict Should Face Off with Persecutors of his Flock

By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pontiff, the new Pope Benedict XVI fell in the crosshair of a highly politicized media around the world, a...

April 6, 2005 | |

The Pope of Freedom

By: Dr. Walid Phares. It was October 1978, during the Lebanon war. Syrian artillery pounded the free enclave of my motherland: Dozens of civilians were killed every day. As a la...

December 14, 2004 | |

Serious on Syria

Washington is at Critical Juncture

September 22, 2004 | FrontPage Magazine |

Lebanon Under Syria’s Boot

Although Syria has interfered in Lebanon's presidential elections throughout the country's modern history, Damascus' current manipulation of Lebanese elections has boiled down to a...

September 9, 2004 | FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Darfur – Islam’s Killing Fields

Why is it that -- yet again -- another Arab League member is massacring its minority populations? Why is the Western media reluctant to identify the religion and ethnicity of the mass murderers a...

July 8, 2004 | The Indianapolis Star

Saddam Takes the Stage and Delivers His Lines

Saddam Hussein's defiant attitude during his court appearance was not the product of a delusional former tyrant. It is a staged cinema of a carefully planned series of steps. While many in t...

July 5, 2004 |

Post-Saddam Choices; Allawi Has Golden Opportunity

The completion of the “transfer paperwork,” two days ahead of schedule, was a pre-emptive strike against al Qaeda, the former Ba’athists, Iran and al Jazeera. The inter...

June 22, 2004 | Washington Post Online

Terrorism: Hostage Crisis

According to Al Jazeera reports, South Korean hostage Kim Sun Il, 33, has been beheaded by his kidnappers. Just a few days after the beheading of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., mi...

April 28, 2004 | Sun-Sentinel |

U.S. Trouble Means More Chances for Mullahs

Co-Authored by Robert Rabil Decades of brutal rule under the regime of Saddam Hussein have eroded the sense of Iraqi "national" identity shaped in the 20th century. Since the fall of the...

December 17, 2003 | New York Daily News

With Saddam’s Fall Arabs May See the Light

Saddam Hussein's capture is cause for celebration, but his story must be seen in a larger context. It is part of the continuing and profoundly troubled saga of Arab nationalism. In the decad...

October 9, 2003 | FrontPageMagazine

Symposium: The Muslim Persecution of Christians

By Dr. Walid Phares The widespread persecution of Christians is an increasing phenomenon in the Islamic world. Aside from its obvious tragic and horrifying ingredients, what is the signi...