# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanan-makiya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:16:59.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanan-makiya"
name: "Kanan Makiya"
slug: "kanan-makiya"
description: "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."
tagline: "Iraqi-American academic and orientalist (born 1949)"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.293882666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Makiya"
    title: "Kanan Makiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9"
    title: "كنعان مكية"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "كنعان مكيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kanan_Makiya"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "כנעאן מקייה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2897015"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump