Kanan Makiya

Baghdad-born writer and professor Kanan Makiya talks about the devastation in Iraq during the U.S. occupation and his latest novel.

The new novel, "The Rope" by Kanan Makiya, explores Iraq during the first four years of the American occupation.  

Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU,  Ian Buruma, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard, and Kanan Makiya, professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University, take a critical look at our urge to commemorate.  All three will participate in the all-day symposium "Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry" Saturday, May 7th at NYU.