Samir Al-Khalil, Author, Kanan Makiya, Author University of California Press $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-520-07376-0
Announced in early 1985--well before the end of the Iran-Iraq war it supposedly celebrates--Saddam Hussein's monument is less a symbol of victory in war than of a nation's subjugation to one man's power. On either end of Baghdad's parade grounds...
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Kanan Makiya, Author . Pantheon $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-40087-2
Makiya, an award-winning writer and filmmaker, triumphs in this inspired and lyrical book that is equal parts history and novel. His focus is the Rock of Jerusalem, claimed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike as the site of Abraham's near-sa
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Kanan Makiya, Author I. B. Tauris & Company $23 (153p) ISBN 978-1-86064-966-0
This reissue of Makiya's well-received 1991 study inevitably addresses a different world than the one in which it was conceived, written and first disseminated. A dozen years ago, the withering account of the artistic""accomplishments"" of Hussein's
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Kanan Makiya, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-393-03108-9
In this urgently important, courageous polemic, Iraqui dissident Makiya challenges Arabs and pro-Arab intellectuals to end their collective silence on the represssion carried out against their own people by brutal thugs like Saddam Hussein. Makiya's
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