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Author Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana.

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

Publication Info. New York : Public Affairs, [2008]

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Edition First edition.
Description xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana -- Diaries.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.
Prisoners of war -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Prisoners of war -- United States.
Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana. (OCoLC)fst01785455
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. (OCoLC)fst01783445
Afghan War (2001- ) (OCoLC)fst01695175
Prisoners of war. (OCoLC)fst01077227
Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. (OCoLC)fst01228663
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Gefangener (DE-588)4022782-0
Dolmetscherin (DE-588)4372439-5
Bucht von Guantánamo -- Camp X-Ray.
War on Terrorism (2001-2009) (OCoLC)fst01754980
Chronological Term 2001-2009
Genre/Form World literature.
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
Diaries.
Other Form: Online version: Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana. My Guantánamo diary. 1st ed. New York : Public Affairs, ©2008 (OCoLC)676422358
ISBN 9781586484989
1586484982
9781586487072 (pbk.)
1586487078
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