I’m pleased to write that I have been sent confirmation that the shipment of books we sent from the Cato Institute to the four university libraries of Iraqi Kurdistan have arrived at their destinations. They went from Baltimore by ship, were delivered to Aqaba, where they were picked up and taken by truck through Iraq and delivered to the libraries, which are now cataloguing them and putting them on the library shelves.
I’m very grateful to my colleagues in the U.S., Jordan, and Iraq for all the hard work and persistence that they dedicated to providing students and scholars with some valuable tools that will help to create free, open, and prosperous societies. I hope soon to make similar shipments available to libraries in other countries throughout the region. As our network expands, we should be able to make yet more books available. (We plan to ship books that are published in English or French, and to publish more books in the region in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish, and Azeri.)