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Author:

Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana.

Title:

My Guantánamo diary : the detainees and the stories they told me / Mahvish Rukhsana Khan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Public Affairs,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

War on Terrorism, 2001-
Afghan War, 2001---Prisoners and prisons, American.
Prisoners of war--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Prisoners of war--United States.
Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana--Diaries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-302).

Contents:

Secret clearance -- The pediatrician -- Getting there -- The old man -- Big bounties -- The goatherd -- The lawyers -- The businessman -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Dead detainees -- Habeas hurdles -- Sami Al-Haj -- The drama -- Jumah Al-Dossary -- What the Pentagon said -- The police chief -- The poets -- Serial numbers.

Summary:

Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born in Michigan to immigrant Afghan parents. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantánamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs, and brought them Starbucks chai, the closest available drink to the kind of tea they would drink at home. And they quickly befriended her, offering fatherly advice as well as a uniquely personal insight into their plight, and that of their families thousands of miles away. For Khan, the experience was a validation of her Afghan heritage--as well as her American freedoms, which allowed her to intervene at Guantánamo purely out of her sense that it was the right thing to do. Mahvish Khan's story is a challenging, brave test of who she is--and who we are.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

1586487078
9781586487072 (pbk.)
1586484982
9781586484989

OCLC:

(OCoLC)176893937

LCCN:

2008274233

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)