Kanan Makiya is Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. His books include Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (1989) and Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World (1993). In 2003, he founded the Iraq Memory Foundation, a NGO based in Baghdad and the US that is dedicated to issues of remembrance, violence, and identity formation.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Begin Centre: Fathom contributor Paul Gross in conversation with Eylon Levy, who was appointed an Israeli Government Spokesman at the beginning of the war, and Gil Hoffman, Executive Editor and Executive Director of HonestReporting.