Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist. He is author of, among numerous other books, Profit over People and the international best-seller (currently available in 26 foreign markets), the anti-war 9-11, which has more than 400,000 copies in print. Edward Said is the author of the groundbreaking work Orientalism as well as, Culture and Imperialism, Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, and many others. His writing appears regularly in the Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Arab-language daily, al-Hayat. He lives in New York.