Summary
American linguist and writer who visited Gaza in 2012 and became a book donor and correspondent of Mosab Abu Toha, founder of the Edward Said Public Library (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.176-177).
Details
- Abu Toha met Chomsky during his 2012 visit to Gaza and the Islamic University of Gaza, and kept his penned email address in the Oxford Dictionary, the first book he ever received (PDF p.176).
- Chomsky replied to Abu Toha’s March 23, 2016 email within three hours and sent signed books; a dozen books he sent in April 2016 were held by the Israeli authorities from July 2016 until January 2017 under the mail ban on Gaza (PDF p.176-177, p.180).
- Meeting Abu Toha at the University of Arizona on February 10, 2020, Chomsky told how he had been barred from entering the West Bank via Jordan to speak at Birzeit University (PDF p.200-201).
Related pages
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Mosab Abu Toha, Edward Said Public Library, Gaza