George Farag

Dr. George Farag is a United States diplomat, consul, political anthropologist, and the CEO of Silverline Strategies, where he provides expert analysis on U.S. immigration policy and processes. A member of America’s “expeditionary diplomats,” he served with an elite group of foreign service officers that specialized in high-risk missions; diplomacy's equivalent of the military's special forces. George was among the first diplomats to enter Iraq in 2003 and helped evacuate 15,000 Americans during the 2006 war in Lebanon. He has also worked in consular services with U.S. embassies in the Middle East for over a decade and decided on thousands of visa applications.

George holds a U.S. government security clearance and is the recipient of the Department of State’s Superior Honor Award, the Meritorious Honor Award, and the George P. Schultz Consular Certificate. He has written on immigration policy, including op-eds in the New York Daily News and the National Law Review as well as white paper titled Pro-American Immigration: Common Ground in our Immigration Strategy.

THE CONSUL (Memoir)

The Consul is a braided narrative, weaving the story of George's hardscrabble childhood and search for redemption in America’s failed invasion of Iraq. As a kid, George's mom fled Egypt with him and his little brother after their father abandoned them. In America, they lived in grinding poverty and George worked with prostitutes to support his family, that is until rival pimps almost killed them. Despite post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiment, George became a U.S. diplomat and was deployed to Iraq. There, he forged unlikely alliances with local warlords, Spanish spies, a philosophical imam, and a dynamic Oklahoma lawyer fighting for women’s empowerment. Not all of them lived to tell our story, but George survived a final bloody encounter, made peace with old family damage, and found a new purpose as an American consul.

THE CONSUL is more than a historical account; it’s a political thriller that illustrates the resilience of the human spirit, resonates with the universal experiences of love and loss, and offers a framework to understand contemporary, global issues. Ultimately, it’s an immigrant’s story of survival, redemption, and the enduring quest for connection in a world marked by adversity and uncertainty. Some examples of comparable titles are Invisible Child: Poverty, Hope and Survival in an American City (2022), The Ambassadors (2019), and The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between (2016).

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