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Don't Forget Us Here - Lost and Found at Guantanamo (Hardcover)
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At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a
cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by
warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to
Gauntanamo Bay, where he spent the next 15 years as Detainee #441.
In the vein of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, Don't Forget Us Here
tells two coming-of-age stories in parallel: a makeshift island
outpost becoming the world's most notorious prison and an innocent
young man emerging from its darkness. Arriving as a stubborn
teenager, Mansoor survived the camp's infamous interrogation
program and became a feared and hardened resistance fighter leading
prison riots and hunger strikes. With time though, he grew into the
man prisoners nicknamed "Smiley Troublemaker": a student, writer,
historian, and dedicated pop culture fan. With unexpected warmth
and empathy, he unwinds a narrative of fighting for hope and
survival in unimaginable circumstances, illuminating the
limitlessness of the human spirit. And through his own story as
well as those who were there with him--detainees and
guards--Mansoor also tells Gauntanamo's story, offering an
unprecedented window into one of the most secretive places on
earth. Putting a human face on the Gauntanamo we know from the
news, as well as showing the side we never see--the art, the
community, the joyful reclamation of stolen humanity--this book
reconstructs the camp's history in human terms, bearing witness to
the lives lost and destroyed there. Twenty years later, Gauntanamo
remains open. At a moment of due reckoning, Mansoor helps us
understand what actually happened there--both the horror and the
beauty--offering a vital chronicle of an experience we cannot
afford to forget.
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