Teach the Iraqis Franklin and Martin Luther King

"Juan Cole, a blogger and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan, has come up with an intriguing idea for how to fill the deplomacy gap in the Middle East"
In Iraq for 365

If you think books are important, you can also click on the link for Topsy N. Smalley
on my side bar. Topsy list on his page, among other things:

Iraq Textbooks Project: Word

Higher Education in Iraq: Textbooks & Libraries

Nice to see that people are finally coming around to this idea of putting good books in the hands of people that might never have read them.