Imprisoned in Guantanamo, wild animals reminded me I’m human.
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Author: Mansoor Adayfi
Mansoor Adayfi is a writer, artist, and former Guantánamo detainee who was held for over 14 years without charges. Adayfi has written several pieces published in the New York Times, including the Modern Love column “Taking Marriage Classes at Guantánamo”; and the introduction for the exhibit Art from Guantanamo, which ran at John Jay College in 2017-2018. Adayfi participated in the creation of the award-winning radio documentary The Art of Now for BBC radio about art from Guantánamo and the CPC podcast Love Me, which aired on NPR’s Snap Judgment. From Guantanamo, with Love is inspired by Adayfi’s real life experiences as chronicled in his forthcoming book DON’T FORGET US HERE, to be published by Hachette in 2021.