Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World

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 failure of Arab and pro-Arab intellectuals to repudiate it.Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and...