The Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya brought the attention of the world to the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime in his powerful 1989 bestseller Republic of Fear. Now, writing for the first time under his own name, Makiya confronts the broad realities of tyranny in the Middle East and the moral failu[...]
This volume relates how the Arab Ba'th Socialist party has transformed Iraq since 1968. It describes the Ba'thist regime that emerged and analyzes the kind of political authority that has culminated in the personality cult surrounding Saddam Hussein.[...]
In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The "Victory Arch" celebr[...]