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Iraqi-American professor and author

Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American^[1][2] academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.

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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.^[3]

Makiya was born in Baghdad and left Iraq to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later working for his father's architectural firm, Makiya & Associates which had branch offices in London and across the Middle East.

As a former exile, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi opposition, a "close friend" of Ahmed Chalabi, and an influential proponent of the Iraq War (2003–2011) effort.^[4][5] He subsequently admitted that e