Kanan makiya wikipedia

  • Kanan Makiya (born ) is an Iraqi-American academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.
  • Kanan Makiya (born ) is an Iraqi-American academic and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.
  • Kanan Karimov (born ), an Azerbaijani Association football manager and former player; Kanan Makiya (born ), Iraqi American professor and former.

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    Mohamed Makiya

    Iraqi architect (–)

    Mohamed Makiya (Mohammed Saleh Makiya ) (Arabic: محمد مكية) was an Iraqi architect and one of the first Iraqis to gain formal qualifications in architecture. He is noted for establishing Iraq's first department of architecture at the University of Baghdad and for his architectural designs which incorporated Islamic motifs such as calligraphy in an effort to combine Arabic architectural elements within contemporary works.

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    Mohamed Saleh Makiya, son of Bahiya and Saleh Abd al-Aziz Makiya,[1] was born in Baghdad into a family of clothing merchants.[2] His father died when he was an infant, and his mother went to live with his uncle.[3]

    At the Baghdad Central Secondary School, he excelled in mathematics and showed sufficient promise to be selected as one of 50 students to be awarded a scholarship to study in England.[4] He travelled to England in and spent his first yea

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    Kanan Makiya

    Iraqi-American professor and author

    Kanan Makiya (born ) is an Iraqi-American[1][2] academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international attention with Republic of Fear (), which became a best-selling book after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and with Cruelty and Silence (), a critique of the Arab intelligentsia. In , Makiya lobbied the U.S. government to invade Iraq and oust Hussein.[3]

    Makiya was born in Baghdad and left Iraq to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later working for his father's architectural firm, Makiya & Associates which had branch offices in London and across 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 Iraq War (–) effort.[4][5] He subsequently admitted that effort "went wrong".[

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    Kanan

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    • Kanan Gill (born ), Indian stand-up comedian, actor, and internet personality
    • Kanan Karimov (born ), an Azerbaijani Association football manager and former player
    • Kanan Makiya (born ), Iraqi American professor and former dissident
    • Kanan Malhotra, Indian model and television actor
    • Kanan Seyidov, an Azerbaijani military officer
    • Kanan Yusif-zada (born ), an Azerbaijani surgeon, professor, and military administrator

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    • Kanan, a character in the manga series, Saiyuki
    • Kanan Jarrus, a character in the Star Wars franchise
    • Kanan Matsuura, a character from the media-mix project, Love Live! Sunshine!!
    • Kanan Stark, a character in the television series Power

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    • Kanan, Osaka, a town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
    • Kanan, Pori, a district in Pori, Finland
    • Kanan, Khuzestan, a city in Karun County, Khuzestan
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