Iraqi Congressional Delegate To Speak At Muhlenberg
Kanan Makiya, an active participant in the drafting of a new Iraqi constitution, will speak on "The Politics of Human Rights in Iraq Today," Wednesday, February 25, 7 p.m., in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall, Muhlenberg College.Friday, February 20, 2004 10:44 AM
Kanan Makiya, an active participant in the drafting of a new Iraqi constitution, will speak on "The Politics of Human Rights in Iraq Today," Wednesday, February 25, 7 p.m., in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall, Muhlenberg College.
Makiya is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University. He also serves as Iraqi National Congress delegate to the Constitutional Committee, which is drafting the new democratic constitution for Iraq. He left Iraq to study architecture at MIT, and later wrote "Republic of Fear," which examined Saddam Hussein's repressive regime. In 1992, he acted as the convener of the Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi National Congress, a transitional parliament based in northern Iraq. Since then he has worked closely with the Iraqi political and intellectual elite opposed to Saddam's regime and has briefed the current U.S. administration on issues relating to American policy toward Iraq.
Recently, Makiya established the Iraq Memory Foundation, which is working to create a museum to commemorate the victims of torture and execution committed during three decades of Baath party rule.
Makiya's talk is made possible by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., F.L. Smidth, Mack Trucks Inc., IKON Public Affairs, and the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics, Lectures and Forums committee, International Studies and the Department of Political Science. It is part of the Center for Ethics' spring series on human rights.
