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Farah has been interviewed on over 50 television programs to discuss presidential elections, Supreme Court decisions, and Middle East conflicts. He has appeared on ABC's Nightline, PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers, ABC's 20/20, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, MSNBC's Countdown, Fox News' Fox & Friends, CBS Evening News, CNN's American Morning, MSNBC's Lester Holt Live, Al-Jazeera's Inside Story, and C-Span's Washington Journal. Al-Jazeera retained Farah to provide on-site analysis of the presidential debates in 2012.

Farah is the author of the book No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates, which was published by Seven Stories Press in 2004. Farah is also the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization Open Debates, which advocates reform of the presidential debate process.

To reform the presidential debates, Farah advocates replacing the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates with a "truly nonpartisan" Citizens' Debate Commission that would operate transparently, employ challenging formats and adopt democratic candidate selection criteria. In 2004, Farah persuaded multiple newspapers and more than 60 civic organizations to endorse the Citizens' Debate Commission. In 2012, Farah helped convince three corporations to withdraw their sponsorship of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

In 2000, Farah graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2005, he graduated from Harvard Law School with a J.D. He was the recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

In his book, Farah describes how negotiators for the Republican and Democratic nominees draft secret contracts that dictate the terms of the presidential debates. Those contracts, argues Farah, contain antidemocratic provisions that weaken debate formats and exclude third-party challengers. Through his investigative work, Farah secured copies of the 1992, 1996 and 2004 contracts and made them public for the first time, spurring criticism of the major parties for manipulating the debates.

Farah has repeatedly criticized the Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation which has sponsored every general election presidential debate since 1988. Farah argues that the Commission on Presidential Debates was created by the Republican and Democratic parties to "seize control of the presidential debates from the League of Women Voters." Farah claims that the Commission implements and conceals the debate contracts negotiated by the major party campaigns.

George Farah (born 1978) is an American author, attorney, pro-democracy activist and political commentator.

Farah was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 1978 and moved to the United States.