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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>THE CIS STARR FORUM<br>
</b></font><font size="-2">M I T C E N T E
R F O R I N T E R N A T I O N A
L S T U D I E S<br>
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<i>The CIS Starr Forum presents a special IAP event:<br>
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</i><font size="+1"><b>A conversation with<br>
</b></font><font size="+2"><b>Kanan Makiya<br>
</b></font><font size="+1"><b>on the end of Saddam and the future of
Iraq<br>
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Thursday, January 8, 2004<br>
noon - 1:30 p.m.<br>
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</b></font><font size="-1"><b>Kanan Makiya</b>, the Sylvia K.
Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis
University, was born in Baghdad but left Iraq to study architecture at
M.I.T. In 1981, Makiya left the practice of architecture and
began to write a book about Iraq,<i> Republic of Fear</i> (1989),
which became a best-seller after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
His next book,<i> The Monument</i> (1991), is an essay on the
aesthetics of power and kitsch. Both<i> Republic of Fear</i> and<i>
The Monument</i> were written under the pseudonym, Samir al-Khalil.
The award-winning<i> Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and
the Arab World</i> (1993), followed in 1993.<br>
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Makiya has played a central role in Harvard's Iraq Research and
Documentation Project, which has collected resources on and created a
database about the rule of Iraq's Ba'ath Party. He is one of the
influential Iraqi exiles who advocated the removal of Saddam's regime.
He is currently an adviser to Iraq's Interim Governing Council and a
member of the panel working on the drafting of a new Iraqi
constitution.<br>
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<br>
</font>Hosted by<font size="+1"><b> Professor Kenneth Oye<br>
</b></font>MIT Political Science Department<br>
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<font size="-1">Killian Hall<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Hayden Library Building / 14W-111<br>
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(near the Kendall Square T stop)<br>
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<b>CONTACT:</b> starrforum@mit.edu<br>
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