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Poems from Guantánamo : the detainees speak / edited by Marc Falkoff ; preface by Flagg Miller ; afterword by Ariel Dorfman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Original language: Arabic, Pushto Publication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.Description: x, 72 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781587296062
  • 1587296063
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PJ7694. E3.
Contents:
Contents: They fight for peace / Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer—O prison darkness / Abdulaziz—I shall not complain / Abdulaziz—To my father / Abdulla Thani Faris al-Anazi—Lions in the cage / Ustad Badruzzaman Badr—Homeward bound / Moazzam Begg—Death poem / Jumah al Dossari—They cannot help / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—Cup poems 1. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani—Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj—The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan—Is it true? / Osama Abu Kabir—Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif—I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad—Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga—I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity—My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity—Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish—Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University PJ7694.E3.P64 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000353465
Total holds: 0

Abstract: Features twenty-two poems written by seventeen men held in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: They fight for peace / Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer—O prison darkness / Abdulaziz—I shall not complain / Abdulaziz—To my father / Abdulla Thani Faris al-Anazi—Lions in the cage / Ustad Badruzzaman Badr—Homeward bound / Moazzam Begg—Death poem / Jumah al Dossari—They cannot help / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—Cup poems 1. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost—First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani—Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj—The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan—Is it true? / Osama Abu Kabir—Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif—I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad—Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga—I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity—My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity—Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish—Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani.

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