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NEWS & EVENTS
War on Terror
Lecture Series to Host Renowned Expert on Middle Eastern Politics
(October 2006). Dr. Walid Phares will be
on campus on October 26
to
meet with students and give a public talk, which
will be delivered at 5:00pm in Conference Room B in the Slane Center.
Professor Phares visit is sponsored by
the History Department, the Honors program, and
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Dr. Phares has been an associate professor in Florida Atlantic
University's Department of Political Science and is a senior fellow
with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, where he serves as
an expert on terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Jihad movements.
He has written seven books on the Middle East, including most recently
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005). He has published hundreds of articles in newspapers
and scholarly journals such as Global Affairs, Middle East
Quarterly, and Journal of South Asian and Middle East Studies.
Dr. Phares has made numerous appearances in the international and
national media, including CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, FOX and BBC
as well as al-Jazeera and al-Hurra. He regularly testifies before the
US Senate Subcommittee on the Middle East and South East Asia and
conducts congressional and State Department briefings.
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