Kanan Makiya

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Iraq, Scientist
1949

Kanan Makiya (born 1949 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi-British academic and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international attention writing Republic of Fear (1989), which became a best-seller after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and Cruelty and Silence (1991), a critique of the Arab intelligentsia. Makiya would later lobby the US government to invade Iraq in 2003 and oust Hussein.

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