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Don't forget us here, lost and found at Guantánamo, Mansoor AdayfI in collaboration with Antonio Aiello

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Don't forget us here, lost and found at Guantánamo, Mansoor AdayfI in collaboration with Antonio Aiello

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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mapsillustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Don't forget us here

Responsibility statement

Mansoor AdayfI in collaboration with Antonio Aiello

Sub title

lost and found at Guantánamo

Summary

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 Guantánamo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441. His memoir tells two stories in parallel: a makeshift island outpost becoming the world's most notorious prison and an innocent young man emerging from its darkness. With unexpected warmth and empathy, Mansoor unwinds a narrative of fighting for hope and survival in unimaginable circumstances, illuminating the limitlessness of the human spirit. And through his own story, he also tells Guantánamo's story, offering an unprecedented window into one of the most secretive places on earth and the people--detainees and guards alike--who lived there with him

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