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2007:

  1. Personal reflections about Iraq with Kanan Makiya
    Personal reflections about Iraq with Kanan Makiya

    with Kanan Makiya on Mar 29, 2007

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2006:

  1. An hour panel discussion about possibilities for the future of Iraq
    An hour panel discussion about possibilities for the...

    with Jessica Tuchman, Kanan Makiya, Les Gelb and more on Mar 20, 2006

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    53 min
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2003:

  1. A conversation about Iraq with Kanan Makiya
    A conversation about Iraq with Kanan Makiya

    with Kanan Makiya on Nov 3, 2003

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    21 min
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2001:

  1. A panel discussion about the Arab perspective on 9/11
    A panel discussion about the Arab perspective on 9/11

    with Fawaz Gerges, Kanan Makiya, Malik Mufti and more on Oct 5, 2001

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    60 min
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Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi-American academic. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. In 1981, he left the practice of architecture to write, using the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil. He later founded the Iraqi Memory Foundation.

In “Republic of Fear”, which became a best-seller after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, Makiya argues that Iraq had become a full-fledged totalitarian state, worse than despotic states such as Jordan or Saudi Arabia. “Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World” was published under Makiya’s own name. It was awarded The Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international relations published in English in 1993.

Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Makiya