““At the time of the sanctions, we all believed we couldn’t live without the West. Even if some of us spoke about standing up to Western colonialism and imperialism, we needed you, we needed your books and novels, we needed to discuss and translate them.” He describes, with emotion, how during the embargo, Noam Chomsky used to send some of his unpublished drafts and lectures to a professor in the University of Baghdad, to photocopy and circulate amongst the students, and the joy and surprise of discovering Chomsky’s scribbles and crossings-out inside the margins and on the pages.”
The Iraqi Suitcase by Laura Waddington
Source: Noam Chomsky interviewed in Collateral Damage, 1991. Produced by Paper Tiger Television, New York. bstev98 (YouTube)