Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American[1][2] academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international attention with Republic of Fear (1989), which became a best-selling book after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and with Cruelty and Silence (1991), a critique of the Arab intelligentsia. In 2003, Makiya lobbied the U.S. government to invade Iraq and oust Hussein.
Makiya was born in Baghdad and left Iraq to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later working for his father's architectural firm, Makiya & Associates which had branch offices in London and across the Middle East. As a former exile, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi opposition, a "close friend" of Ahmed Chalabi, and an influential proponent of the Iraq War (2003–2011) effort.[3][4] He subsequently admitted that effort "went wrong".[5]
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KananMakiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international...
age of 101. He was survived by his son Kanan (b. 1949) and a daughter, Hind (b. 1952). His son, KananMakiya, had also trained as an architect, but left...
and internet personality Kanan Karimov (born 1976), an Azerbaijani Association football manager and former player KananMakiya (born 1949), Iraqi American...
winners have included Lawrence Wright, Jonathan Spence, David McCullough, KananMakiya, Michael Ignatieff, Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Kinloch Massie, Adam Hochschild...
Iraq's political stability," in the words of Bryan R. Gibson. Similarly, KananMakiya writes that "The conjuncture around which Ba'thism took power was defined...
assessment of the British mandate and the Iraqi monarchy, historians KananMakiya considers the British mandate and its institutions more as "agents of...
to these files as "the good stuff…material to smear the enemy with". KananMakiya, an Iraqi–American academic and pro-Iraq War advocate, criticized HRW...
authority who might have issued orders to exterminate Assyrian males. KananMakiya, a leftist Iraqi historian, presents the actions taken by the military...
part of Saddam's public image during his tenure as president of Iraq. KananMakiya recounts: The man and the myth merge in this episode. His biography—and...
killed in the conflict while 75,000 others were wounded. According to KananMakiya, "For the Iraqi people, the cost of enforcing the will of the United...
and lyricist. Kacem El Ghazzali – Moroccan-Swiss writer and activist. KananMakiya – Iraqi-American academic and Islamic and Middle Eastern scholar. Kareem...
allowed the formation of an Iraqi Communist Party. Academic and author KananMakiya compared the trials of political dissidents under the Iraqi monarchy...
2007-02-07. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, authored by KananMakiya, University of California Press, 2008, page 215 "Amnesty International...
on, was removing Saddam Hussein worth the war in Iraq?". Al Jazeera. KananMakiya, Samīr al-Halīl. "Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq", Updated...
Immigrant Absorption. Republic of fear: the politics of modern Iraq By KananMakiya, chapter 2 "A World of Fear", University of California 1998 "Jews of...
movement in the 1990s: its impact on Turkey and the Middle East. p. 56. KananMakiya (1998). Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition...
"We hanged spies, but the Jews crucified Christ." According to author KananMakiya, the negative publicity "has less to do with the activities of a Zionist...
past, of the Arab Nation, and how the Arab World could be unified. As KananMakiya, the author of Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, notes:...
Albert Hourani, Robert Graham Irwin, Nikki Keddie, Bernard Lewis, and KananMakiya, suffered negative consequences, because Orientalism affected public...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-58234-050-1 p. 103–105 al-Khalil, 12–13. KananMakiya. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition, (1998)...
luminaries gave speeches and orchestrated the carnival-like atmosphere. —KananMakiya describing the 1969 Baghdad hangings. The Richard Nixon administration...
and translator Emanuel Kamber George Kiraz – computational linguist KananMakiya – academic, professor Masawaiyh – physician Eden Naby Estiphan Panoussi...
Rahim met KananMakiya, the author of Republic of Fear, an important book on Baathist Iraq, published under a pseudonym in 1989. Rahim and Makiya would later...
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