Walid Phares

Director of the Future of Terrorism Project, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies'

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Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Director of its Future of Terrorism project; instructor in Global Strategies at National Defense University in Washington DC; author of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West, The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracies, and The Confrontation: Winning the war against Future Jihad

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