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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees And The Stories They Told Me (2008)

by Mahvish Rukhsana Khan(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1586484982 (ISBN13: 9781586484989)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

PublicAffairs

review 1: A great book to the author's credit! She brought the truth and what she saw/experienced at the Guantanamo. The US officials told many lies in the name of, oh I don't know... it changes every week! If all fails and politics aside, it shows the scary and barbaric nature of man in general and his hostility to those he can overpower, regardless of politics, ethnicity, religion, color, gender and so on.
review 2: This is not a short story but I read it in one sitting. Mavish Khan does a beautiful job of calling out the unique failures of Gitmo and humanizing some of its very likely wrongly detained. Habeas is a touchstone right, one that has helped define the United States' democratic and transparent impulses; and Gitmo has eviscerated the principle and the right. a... morenyone who values the mutitude of good that the U.S. offers should consider reading this, if only to remind ourselves that democracy and freedom are constant works in progress and nothing to be taken for granted. less

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