Toleration and the New Arab Politics

Issue Date January 1995
Volume 6
Issue 1
Page Numbers 90-103
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About the Author

Kanan Makiya is senior fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, where he is emeritus professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. His books include Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (1989) and Fi Al-Qaswa [On Cruelty] (in Arabic, 2021).

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