# Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo - Hardcover

by **Mansoor Adayfi** (Author)

**_"_Amazing book! And will be an eye-opener for many." -Margaret Atwood**  

**This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.**

At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Guantánamo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441.  
_Don't Forget Us Here_ tells two coming-of-age stories in parallel: a makeshift island outpost becoming the world's most notorious prison and an innocent young man emerging from its darkness. Arriving as a stubborn teenager, Mansoor survived the camp's infamous interrogation program and became a feared and hardened resistance fighter leading prison riots and hunger strikes. With time though, he grew into the man nicknamed "Smiley Troublemaker" a student, writer, advocate, and historian. While at Guantánamo, he wrote a series of manuscripts he sent as letters to his attorneys, which he then transformed into this vital chronicle, in collaboration with award-winning writer Antonio Aiello. With unexpected warmth and empathy, Mansoor unwinds a narrative of fighting for hope and survival in unimaginable circumstances, illuminating the limitlessness of the human spirit. And through his own story, he also tells Guantánamo's story, offering an unprecedented window into one of the most secretive places on earth and the people--detainees and guards alike--who lived there with him. Twenty years after 9/11, Guantánamo remains open, and at a moment of due reckoning, Mansoor Adayfi helps us understand what actually happened there--both the horror and the beauty--a stunning record of an experience we cannot afford to forget.

### Author Biography

**Mansoor Adayfi** is a writer and former Guantánamo 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 Guantánamo" and the op-ed "In Our Prison by the Sea." He wrote the introduction, "Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo 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 Guantánamo and the CBC podcast _Love Me_, which aired on NPR's Snap Judgment. Regularly interviewed by international news media about his experiences at Guantánamo 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 _Guantánamo 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 Guantánamo 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.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.1 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** August 17, 2021

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