Kanan Makiya
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Iraqi-American academic and orientalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 , which became a best-selling book after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and with Cruelty and Silence , a critique of the Arab intelligentsia. In 2003, Makiya lobbied the U.S. government to invade Iraq and oust Hussein.
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