Mansoor Adayfi

Mansoor Adayfi is a writer and former Guant�namo Bay Prison Camp detainee, held for over 14 years without charges as an enemy combatant. Adayfi was released to Serbia in 2016, where he struggles to make a new life for himself and to shed the designation of a suspected terrorist. Today, Mansoor Adayfi is a writer and advocate with work published in the New York Times , including a column the Modern Love column "Taking Marriage Class at Guant�namo" and the op-ed "In Our Prison by the Sea."...See more

Mansoor Adayfi is a writer and former Guant�namo Bay Prison Camp detainee, held for over 14 years without charges as an enemy combatant. Adayfi was released to Serbia in 2016, where he struggles to make a new life for himself and to shed the designation of a suspected terrorist. Today, Mansoor Adayfi is a writer and advocate with work published in the New York Times , including a column the Modern Love column "Taking Marriage Class at Guant�namo" and the op-ed "In Our Prison by the Sea." He wrote the introduction, "Ode to the Sea: Art from Guant�namo Bay," for the 2017-2018 exhibition of prisoners' artwork at the John Jay College of Justice in New York City, and contributed to the scholarly volume, Witnessing Torture , published by Palgrave. In 2018, Adayfi participated in the creation of the award-winning radio documentary The Art of Now for BBC radio about art from Guant�namo and the CBC podcast Love Me , which aired on NPR's Snap Judgment. Regularly interviewed by international news media about his experiences at Guant�namo and life after, he was also featured in Out of Gitmo , a mini-documentary and part of PBS's Frontline series. Work from his memoir was recently featured at a public reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival along with work by Guant�namo Diary author Mohamedou Ould Slahi. His graphic narrative, Caged Lives, was by The Nib and will be included in the anthology Guantanamo Voices . In 2019, he won the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social justice journalism. Antonio Aiello is a writer, editor, and storyteller working in print, digital, and broadcast formats. He worked closely with Mansoor to help develop the manuscripts written at Guant�namo into Don't Forget Us Here . Together, they are working to develop a TV show inspired by the book as Fellows in the Sundance Institute's prestigious Episodic Lab. See less