Iraqi dissident writer KANAN MAKIYA. He wrote, under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, the book "Republic of Fear," about Saddam Hussein's regime. The book was one of the first alarms about the brutality of Hussein's regime. MAKIYA has a new book, "Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World." (W.W. NORTON). In the book he criticizes Arab intellectuals for keeping silent over escalating cruelties in the Arab world.
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