Discover new books on Goodreads

See if your friends have read any of Kanan Makiya's books

Kanan Makiya’s Followers (77)

Kanan Makiya

Born

Baghdad, Iraq

Genre

Politics

edit data

is an Iraqi academic, who gained British nationality in 1982. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Although he was born in Baghdad, he left Iraq to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later founding Makiya Associates in order to design and build projects in 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 2003 Iraq War.His life is documented in British journalist Nick Cohen's book What's Left. ...more

1 post
Kanan Makiya's Blog

Kanan Makiya isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

This RSS feed URL is deprecated

This RSS feed URL is deprecated, please update. New URLs can be found in the footers at https://news.google.com/news

View more on Kanan Makiya's website »

1 like · Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on November 03, 2017 00:45

Combine Editions
Kanan Makiya’s books

Average rating: 3.79 · 1,048 ratings · 186 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rope 3.73 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq 3.71 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World 4.14 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem 3.47 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Post-Islamic Classicism: A Visual Essay 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	IRAQ Was the War Worth It? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	al-Qaswah wa-al-ṣamt: Al-ḥarb wa-al-ṭughyān wa-al-intifāḍah fī al-ʻālam al-ʻArabī 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Republic of Fear 1st (first) edition Text Only 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Iraqi discovers Arendt.(Hannah Arendt)(Essay): An article from: World Policy Journal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Kanan Makiya…

Quotes by Kanan Makiya (?)

“Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths”
― Kanan Makiya

2 likes

“He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.”
― Kanan Makiya, The Rope

2 likes

“Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.”
― Kanan Makiya, The Rope

1 likes

See all Kanan Makiya's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The History Book ...: * IRAQ	91	469	Apr 10, 2024 03:18AM
Around the World ...: Iraq	33	1192	Feb 18, 2025 01:34PM
Around the World ...: Heather Circumnavigator	78	192	Jul 01, 2026 06:29PM
Black Coffee: What are you currently reading......	1950	1350	Jul 27, 2026 04:28PM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Kanan to Goodreads.