Faculty Guide

Title

Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

Middle East; politics; early Muslim history; modern Arab thought; uban history; politics of modern Iraq; politics of art and architecture. Teaches and studies modern Arab politics with particular reference to the regime of the Ba'th party in Iraq.

Profile

Written on art and architecture under the Ba'th in Iraq. Currently engaged in working with the U.S. government and the Iraqi opposition to develop a detailed roadmap for the democratization of Iraq after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.

Awards and Honors

Received Honorary PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on June 3, 2007. (2007)

Member of the Board of Trustees, The American University of Iraq in Sulaymaniyya (2006)

Secured grants for the Iraq Memory Foundation to complete scanning of their 11 million pages of documents (2005)

National Endowment of Democracy grant (1999)

Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on International Relations published in English (Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World) (1993)

Edward R. Murrow Award for Best 1992 Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs (Saddam's Killing Fields) (1992)

Courses Taught

IMES	105a	War and Revolution in the Middle East
NEJS	161b	Representations of the City in Literature, Art, and Architecture
NEJS	190a	Describing Cruelty
NEJS	195b	War and Reconstruction in Iraq
NEJS	197b	Political Cultures of the Middle East

Scholarship

Alan Johnson, ed. Global Politics After 9/11. London, 2008.: The Foreign Policy Centre, 2008.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Updated ed. I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem. Pantheon Books, 2001.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq. University of California Press, 1998.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World. W.W. Norton, 1993.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. "Saddam's Killing Fields." WGBH Frontline

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. Al-Harb alati lam Tuktamal (The Unfinished War). Saqi Books, 1991.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. The Monument: Art, Vulgarity, and Responsibility (pseud. Samir al-Khalil). University of California Press; Arabic: Al-Nusb a, 1991.

Enemies of the State. Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. BBC Everyman, 1990.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed. Post-Islamic Classicism: A Visual Essay on the Architecture of Mohamed Makiya. Saqi Books, 1990.

Makiya, Kanan Mohamed, Lattes, Jean-Claude. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (pseud. Samir al-Khalil). 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1989.