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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me | 
 enlarge | Author: Mahvish Khan
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 46849
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1586484982
Dewey Decimal Number: 909.831
EAN: 9781586484989
ASIN: 1586484982
Publication Date: June 23, 2008
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Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, 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 Mahvish Khan the experience was a validation of her Afghan heritage—as well as her American freedoms, which allowed her to intervene at Guantanamo purely out of her sense that it was the right thing to do. Mahvish Khan's story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is —and who we are.
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 Fantastic Book June 16, 2008
Love to Read (usa)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is one of those books that you will not be able to get out of your thoughts. The book beautifully written. It is almost impossible to put down. What I enjoyed most about My Guantanamo Diary, is that it it transcends the story of Guantanamo. It is a human story about relationships, love and betrayal that I think many people will be able to relate to.
Mahvish Khan is a brilliant writer. The book is joyous, and smart and at the same time distressing. She has a pleasingly cynical sense of humor, one that cuts right through the material. This is such good material that is well considered and presented.
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me June 16, 2008
allison
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
A MUST read book - An insightful, heartrendering, and beautiful piece of literture. I laughed, shed tears, vacilated between the shock of the governments torture methods and pride of the author's courage and determination to uphold the tenable principles of the United States Constitution.
The author allows readers to experience events, tribulations and personalities through her eyes, cultural knowledge and objectivity. I vicariously journeyed the route - Florida - Guantanamo -Afghanistan with Mavish talking to me.
Everyone in the US should read this July 9, 2008
RhodeIsland 1969 (New Jersey)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This well-written expose of Guantanamo Bay puts a human face on the prisoners that are incarcerated there. The shameful detention of 'enemy combatants' in miserable conditions by the US government, in some cases for years without a trial, needs to be better known.
Spectacular book And a MUST read in an election year July 27, 2008
MotherLodeBeth (Sierras of California)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
In this book My Guantanamo Diary the author shows why in an election year, we citizens have to know what our government is doing. Mahvish Khan is an American born lawyer, which I hope people remember.
She is not an enemy of the United States, but such a lover of the United States Constitution, which I wish more supporters of the Bush administration were. She even notes that when she first went to Guantanamo even she assumed she would be meeting terrorists.
The author also is a very positive person so please don't assume the book is all gloom and doom. As an American I found the book to be a wonderful insight into how far we have come since Washington was President, to a place I personally don't like.
The book will or should make you ask yourself if you were arrested, how long do you think you should be held without contact with a lawyer or visits from family? And the author also shares that those men who have been freed after six or more years of arrest, because they were not guilty, do not have hatred toward the American citizen. Would you be as gracious if you were in their shoes?
The book also reminded me that George Washington wrote in a March 24, 1784, letter to his aide Tench Tilghman, saying that Muslims should be hired. Thomas Jefferson owned and read the Quran. Muslims have been in America since the early 1700's.
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me June 26, 2008
S. Syed (USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
May the blessings of God always be with you. You have put your life at risk while working on this book to save the life of the Gitmo detainees. Not only have you opened up our eyes but our hearts as well. May this book be read by EVERYONE because the TRUTH must to be told. I shed many tears by reading this book... just imagine
how and what they went through EVERY single day....
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