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.[8] While at FAU, Phares sponsored the student organization Haiti Watch.[9] In 2008 he became Coordinator of the Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism.[10][11] Since 2008, he has lectured at the National Intelligence University in Washington DC, at the Center for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Center) in Virginia, and at the Daniel Morgan Academy, a Graduate School of National Security in Washington DC.