Noise. Anger. Many were not able to get into Ewart Hall at the American University's Tahrir campus. One person even started screaming and yelling angrily in a highly uncivilised manner, insisting to hear the philosopher who speaks about civilisations.

How exciting it is to listen to a man who is hugely popular in the Middle East and North Africa and attracts this entire crowd who eagerly wants to meet and listen to him.

I asked someone in the audience, who only by her insistence did she barely manage to be allowed into the hall: "What drives you to make all this effort to attend the lecture, considering you could just read about it or wait for the lecture to be uploaded on YouTube?"

She replied "This is Noam Chomsky. I admired him ever since he was a linguist, which is my field. He always fascinated me with his linguistic theories, then after turning to politics he impressed me even more with his political theories and his logical statements."

When the Chomsky entered the hall and began to talk, Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbits' scientist in Lord of the Rings immediately came to mind.

In the Lord of the Rings the Dark Lord Sauron tried to rule the world after long wars among the worlds of the East and terrestrial worlds. Sauron looked for the last ring, which Baggins conceals for hundreds of years in order to be able to possess power, domination and regain his kingdom and glory.

That was my feeling when Chomsky spoke about the American energy monopoly and their insistence on controlling the world economy. Not only that but also their frustration and attitude towards any country that tries to possess nuclear energy.

He spoke also about how the US was so unsatisfied that they lost part of their turf to China and India, who became among the biggest economies in the world.

Chomsky also considered that the rise of the two countries are the first signs of the collapse of the US empire.

The US would also not accept that the policies in the Middle East reflect public opinion because democracies scares the US. This was clear in its support for the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes during the beginning of the revolutions in both countries and even appeared before that when Hamas won democratic, fair elections in the Gaza Strip, yet the Americans didn’t accept the results.  

Chomsky confirmed his belief that US policies in the Middle East were not going to change after those revolutions for the sake of democracy, but because they need the Middle Eastern oil they want to gain more control and dominate the whole globe. 

His theories were scary and gave a lot to be considered, but, at least in my opinion, it was incomplete. It is true that he talked about the American ambitions in the whole world and their desire to dominate the Middle East, but he did not mention the problem of Palestine during this lecture, which I wished he had to continue supporting the Palestinian people.

I stepped out of the lecture thinking about the result of this conflict on mankind if it continues like that and on Chomsky's theories, but I couldn’t see the solution during his presentation.

I then started to think that maybe I should go back and start reading his books so that I might find some of the solutions he had proposed to get out safe of this global-domination game, or maybe just watch the movie Lord of the Rings once again just to remember how this struggle ended.

The only problem about the movie is that screenwriters tend to make good win over evil at the end to make people happy - which is not always the case in the reality.

Now I wonder to where the Arab Spring will take us. Will it be a way out of American domination and help us to gain our freedom, as China and India did, or we will remain captive to Americans' rules and be in game forever.