Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi democracy and human rights advocate. His 1989 book, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime. Following the 1991 Iraqi Kurdish uprising, Makiya visited northern Iraq where he organised the collection of captured Iraqi military and security documents. These documents became the basis for an award-winning 1992 documentary, Saddam’s Killing Fields, describing Saddam Hussein’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the Kurds. In June 2003 he founded the Iraq Memory Foundation in Baghdad. He is also a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis University.
Books by Kanan Makiya
Interviews with Kanan Makiya
The best books on The History of Iraq, recommended by Kanan Makiya
The Iraqi democracy and civil rights campaigner says the Iran-Iraq war is one of the single largest unappreciated great events of modern Middle Eastern history. He chooses the best books on Iraqi history.
