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Walid Phares ((アラビア語:وليد فارس) ) is an American scholar of Lebanese origins. He is a professor at National Defense University in Washington DC and a commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs. Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, the United States Congress, the European Parliament, and the United Nations Security Council. Since 2007, he has served as an expert on terrorism and the Middle East for FOX News since 2007 and was a terrorism expert for NBC from 2003 to 2006. He is an expert for Wikistrat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wikistrat.com/analyst/walid-phares/ )〕 ==Biography== Phares is an American citizen of Lebanese descent who was born on December 24, 1957, grew up in Beirut, and emigrated to the United States in 1990. He holds undergraduate degrees in Law, Political Science, and Sociology from Saint Joseph University and the Lebanese University in Beirut. Following his undergraduate studies, Phares practiced law in Beirut for a period of time, then went on to obtain a Masters Degree in International Law from the Université de Lyon in France and a PhD in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Miami. Phares taught at the Department of International Relations at Florida International University (FIU) in 1992 and was a visiting professor of Comparative Politics at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Palm Beach County from 1993–1994. He was hired as a full-time Professor of Middle East Studies and International Relations in the Department of Political Science at FAU in 1995. While at FAU, Phares sponsored several student organizations focused on human rights including ''Haiti Watch'', ''Human Rights Organization'', the ''Latin American Student Association'', and the ''Society for the Study of the Middle East''. In 1995 he launched the'' Florida Society for Middle East Studies (FMES) ''the second-largest of its kind in the US. Phares is a Visiting Fellow at the (European Foundation for Democracy ) in Brussels. In 2008 he became Coordinator of the (Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism ).〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism )〕 Phares is an expert on Maronite history and affairs. He has served as Secretary General of the World Maronite Union,〔(World Maronite Union WMU Secretariat General )〕 and Secretary General of the World Lebanese Cultural Union.〔(UNSCR 1559:Calling on Syria to Pull Out From Lebanon )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Fox News )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walid Phares」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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