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Letters from Guantánamo

De: Mansoor Adayfi, Antonio Aiello
Narrado por: Mansoor Adayfi, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Elias Khalil, Ibrahim El Helw
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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.

At one point during his first days at Guantánamo, he was instructed to write a letter to his family. He knew interrogators would use whatever he wrote as leverage against him, so he wrote a fake letter to his family. That small act of rebellion made him feel human again and allowed him to address his captors in a way he couldn’t during interrogations. So Adayfi continued to write to his captors disguised as letters to the outside world. He wrote to the pope, space aliens, President Obama, Men’s Health Journal, the Founding Fathers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Donald Trump, and many, many others.

In this three-act production, we experience Adayfi’s coming of age and transformation from a willful and sardonic teenager accused of being an Al-Qaeda general into a hardened resistance fighter to a mature student and artist released after 15 years of imprisonment without ever being charged with a crime. In the story’s epilogue, Adayfi, now freed, finds catharsis by writing one final letter back to Guantánamo. Inspired and encouraged by Adayfi, others whose lives were turned upside down by Guantánamo write their own letters, including families of former prisoners, attorneys, CIA analysts, and former prisoners.

This unforgettable Audible Original brings you close to all the things that make us human—despair, humor, imagination, and an unwavering will to thrive in the most unimaginable circumstances.

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Mansoor Adayfi
Antonio Aiello

About the Creator

Mansoor is a writer, artist, human rights advocate, and former prisoner detained for over 14 years without charges or trial at Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp. He was resettled to Belgrade, Serbia, in 2016 as part of an agreement between the US and Serbian governments. His essays, op-eds, and columns have been published in/on The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Middle East Monitor, The New Arab, and Common Dreams, among others. He also contributed to the 2022 ECCHR publication Rupture and Reckoning—Guantanamo turns 20 and to the scholarly volume Witnessing Torture, published by Palgrave Press.
Adayfi wrote the introduction to "Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay," the art exhibition at John Jay College of Justice in New York City, helped produce the Whicker Prize-winning BBC radio documentary The Art of Now about art from Guantánamo, and was featured in the CBC podcast Love Me. In 2019, he won the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social justice journalism. His critically acclaimed first book, Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo, was published in 2021 by Hachette and won the 2022 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award. Together with his friend and collaborator, Antonio Aiello, he was a Sundance Institute Fellow in Episodic TV to work on From Guantánamo, With Love, a limited series TV show adapted from Don’t Forget Us Here, now in development.
Adayfi graduated with honors from the Nikola Tesla University Faculty of Engineering with a bachelor's degree in management. His thesis, "Rehabilitation and Integration of Former Guantanamo Prisoners into Social Life and the Labor Market," served as the basis of the Guantanamo Survivors Fund, which he co-founded with American attorneys and US-based NGOs. In 2023, he organized the Close Guantanamo Conference at the European Parliament. Mansoor is currently pursuing his master’s degree in project management.

About the Co-Author

Antonio Aiello is a writer, editor, and journalist who creates stories from the periphery of the mainstream. His work has appeared in/on The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Carolina Quarterly, and PEN America, among others. His interview with Don DeLillo was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. As former Content Director and Editor at PEN America, he founded and edited the online literary series The Illustrated PEN, PEN Ten Interviews, the PEN Poetry Series, PEN/Guernica Flash, and the translation magazine Glossolalia. In collaboration with Princeton University, Aiello directed the NEH-funded digitization of PEN America's collection of rare and at-risk audio and video recordings dating back to 1966. More recently, he worked with his friend and collaborator, Mansoor Adafyi, on Adayfi's memoir, Don’t Forget Us Here, Lost and Found at Guantánamo, graphic narratives for The Nib and Guantanamo Voices, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Together with Adayfi, Aiello is a Sundance Institute Fellow in Episodic TV, and adapted Don’t Forget Us Here into the limited series TV show From Guantánamo, With Love, now in development.

Dear Listener,

Why did I choose to tell this story now, in this way?
"I wrote this story now to remind you how the US Military Prison Camp at Guantánamo remains open after 22 years and still holds 30 prisoners. While we know men were tortured there, we continue to ask “Could Guantánamo have been more humane?” instead of “Why does Guantánamo even exist and why is it still open?” Guantánamo is a dark and scary place, but if you look closer, you will find friendship, love, and even art. This is what I want to share with you. Of the 779 men held there, only 10 were ever charged with crimes and only 1 was convicted. So, who were we? We were sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and so much more. I was a teenager when I arrived, stubborn and afraid. These letters offer an intimate and sometimes humorous glimpse of how I became a man over more than 14 years in prison. I always wrote my letters chained, sometimes on hunger strike, often in isolation cells. My letters are fragments of my soul and bear witness to a dark period in US history. Like me, they are lucky to have survived. I hope they inspire a deeper understanding of how resilient the human spirit is, and how hope triumphs over despair, light over darkness. With love from Guantánamo, Mansoor Adayfi, GTMO441"– Mansoor Adayfi, writer of Letters from Guantánamo

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Astounding

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We are supposed to be liberating and helping those under tyranny. Stripping someone of their humanity in the ways described is not what the flag is supposed to stand for. Praying for healing in everyone and all families involved

What do we stand for?

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Here's one that I can give a good review and share. I always wanted to know what goes on inside. Now I know and I don't like it. You won't either. What was it like from a prisoner's point of view? Read on. How does it compare to the torture chamber Abu Ghraib? You be the judge? It's not in the news any more, is it still open? Ask the 30 remaining "enemy combatants" who are untried and unconvicted. How much does it cost to operate it today? read on.

Abu Gharib 2.0

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In this autobiographical audiobook, Letters from Guantanamo, author Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi, a former detainee, was ultimately found innocent after imprisonment without charges from 2002 to 2016. Although the US government contends that he might have been a low-level fighter, he has never waivered from his assertion that as a teenager, he was kidnaped for ransom by thugs, and when his family couldn't pay, he was sold to the Americans for the bounty offered for al-Qa'ida members.

Mr. Adayfi recounts his time in Guantanamo and the conditions he endured there, his hunger strike, and his forced release to Serbia, a country with a history of hostility to Muslims instead of repatriation to his native Yemen.

Early in his captivity, he is instructed to write a letter to his family. Suspecting that his captors want to imprison them, too, he writes a letter to a fake family, directing its content at the censor he knows will read it. The act of rebellion helps him cling to his humanity. This book springs from that letter. The epistolatory format provides a powerful vehicle for this autobiography, as is his plea for the release of many detainees who, like him, were rounded up or sold to the American forces in the days following the 911 attack--a time when many were ready to believe any accusation leveled against a young Muslim. Narrated in part by the author Mansoor Adayfi and co-author Antonio Aiello, it has a visceral impact and mixes the horror of Guantanamo with a touch of humor that only pathos can inspire.

Masterful use of humor to explore a horror.

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Full disclosure: I had a minor contribution to this project. That said, I had no idea what the final project would look like— or sound like—and this is beyond my wildest dreams. I’m quite familiar with Guantanamo and didn’t think I could be so drawn into an audio book about it — but I couldn’t walk away from this. The story is compelling, the performance is riveting, and I listened to the entire book in one sitting. I cannot recommend this enough.

This is a Captivating Listen!

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So informative and beautifully done. Terrible atrocities but the narrator makes you feel at ease and without fault, invites you to learn

What an amazing piece of history! Wow!

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A dark humor regarding human suffering is interwoven through this redemptive tale of resiliency, faith, brotherhood and tenacity.

Brutal and honest

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Having just finished listening "The Letters from Guantanamo," I am moved by the depth and humanity found within its pages.

One of the most striking aspects of this book is the ingenuity with which the detainees addressed their letters. Despite the constraints and censorship they faced, their messages were powerful and impactful. Each letter serves as a testament to the indomitable spirit of the human soul, capable of hope and expression even in the direst circumstances.

The author’s voices is diverse, yet he all share a common thread of longing for justice, connection, and understanding. His words are poignant and often heartbreaking, but they are also filled with moments of hope, wisdom, and even humor. The letters are not just pleas for freedom but are also reflections on life, faith, and humanity.

It is also a powerful reminder of the importance of empathy and the need to uphold human rights and dignity.

Highly recommended.

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This book is a must read for every human in this bleeding earth. Horrifying story of an unjust imprisonment in Guantanamo prison. And the journey of a young innocent man turned into a great humanitarian

Remarkable.

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So glad to have come across this audiobook! I was captivated from the start. Told with both humor and seriousness, this story is impactful.

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