"Noam Chomsky is one of the world?s most-celebrated intellectuals, known for his writing on language and his views on US foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. Now in his late eighties, the linguistics philosopher and Emeritus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology near Boston is still working, writing, and speaking publicly. He?s a quite extraordinary human being in every respect - both intellectually and personally - and we?re not in the same category. Norman Finkelstein He first emerged through his pioneering work in linguistics in the 1950s but later became a political activist and a critic of US foreign policy in Vietnam, its neo-liberal capitalism, and mainstream media. He has been almost as prolific a writer as he has been controversial..." Keywords: Arts & Culture, Israel, Palestine, Literature, Politics