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Mansoor Adayfi
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Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
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2021
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7 editions
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Letters from Guantánamo
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“From the beginning of Camp X-Ray, we had been creating, and those small acts were our escape. Some of us wrote on Styrofoam cups and plates. We used spoons or twisted the tiny stems off apples to write poems or draw flowers, hearts, the moon. We made flowers out of stickers we found on fruit. These were tiny expressions of our former selves breaking through, resisting the identities imprinted on us. These simple expressions were as necessary as food and water, and they were always punished.”
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“We knew not to see America through the filter of Guantánamo, even though most of the guards still saw us through the filter of 9/11.”
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“They didn't see the world we had created and how it had brought calm and peace to the camp. They didn't want to. They only saw terrorists who needed to be detained.”
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
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