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Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi pundit and the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University who played a crucial role in selling the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is one of the names pushed by Benador Associates. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, and a professor at Brandeis Univ.

He is the Director of the Iraq Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University and a past fellow (February-June 1995) of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. He is also a founder of the Iraq Memory Foundation.

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[2] He has written two books under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil.

Biography

Kanan Makya was born in Baghdad, left Iraq to study architecture at M.I.T. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Makiya was active in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and a member Fourth International. He also joined the International Marxist Group (IMG) in UK.

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