A Conversation with Kanan Makiya: Thursday, Jan. 8

[Janet Fischer]

Of possible interest...


THE CIS STARR FORUM
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
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The CIS Starr Forum presents a special IAP event:

A conversation with
Kanan Makiya
on the end of Saddam and the future of Iraq

Thursday, January 8,  2004
noon - 1:30 p.m.

Kanan Makiya, 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, 
Republic of Fear (1989), which became a best-seller after Saddam 
Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. His next book, The Monument (1991), is 
an essay on the aesthetics of power and kitsch. Both Republic of Fear 
and The Monument were written under the pseudonym, Samir al-Khalil. 
The award-winning Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the 
Arab World (1993), followed in 1993.

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.


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