""Walid Phares has long been among the most knowledgeable and incisive scholars of the Middle East--its peoples, its cultures, its religions, and its radical movements."

--U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman".
Who more than Senator Lieberman can judge scholarship on the Middle East. Really. (Phares in the book claims that I blamed the US "war on terrorism" on Christians and Zionists when I never said that).
PS Amer wants to draw your attention to this from the site: Shakir al-Nabulsi is "Chairman, American Interuniversity Consortium (AIC) for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies." Very impressive, don't you agree?