# Kanan Makiya

> Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi-American 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.

*Iraqi-American academic and orientalist (born 1949)*

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## Identity
- **Born:** 1949
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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