Hey folks. Last ep of #TheOtherLatif due out early next week. (@Radiolab team is working remotely bc of Covid19, so needed extra time.) It's a solid ep, tho. Worth the wait. (Here's a snapshot to look forward to.) And meantime, to keep you sated in quarantine, some Gitmo recs:
Have to start with @carolrosenberg, “the dean of Gitmo reporters.” She hasn’t written a book about Guantanamo (yet!) but check out the last big story she did here: nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/…
Read Ben Taub’s @NewYorker profile of Mohamedou Salahi. Despite having interviewed Salahi myself before reading, and knowing most of the details, I wept so hard. For some reason the detail that hit me hardest was about the baby crib. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
While you're at it, read Salahi’s memoir, Guantanamo Diary. (Soon to be a movie starring @taharrahim1, Jodie Foster, and Benedict Cumberbatch.) Also, follow @MohamedouOuld. Because seeing tweets like this one helps balance out that detail about the crib.
A bunch of Gitmo graphic novels. Sid Jacobson and
@erniecolon's Torture Report, @jerometubiana's Guantanamo Kid, @sarahmirk's Guantanamo Voices.
@wendymac's coverage of 9/11 trial for the NYT.
This episode of the @cbcpodcasts #LoveMe about Gitmo's marriage class from @cristalliond, @luolkowski, @mirabw was a stunner. cbc.ca/radio/loveme/h…
That #LoveMe episode centers on @MansoorAdayfi, whose gorgeous writing you can also see in the NYT. (How does this man NOT have a book deal.) nytimes.com/2018/07/27/sty…
Wanna give a hat tip here to @GuantanamoAndy who as far as I can tell was the first person to write about Abdul Latif Nasser specifically as part of his giant group biography of all 770+ Gitmo detainees.
.@CliveSSmith is as powerful a writer as he is an interview subject. He should be a lawyer, that guy. Read his book Bad Men.
When I started this project, I never thought I'd hear directly from one of the counterintel officers at Gitmo who actually questioned detainees, but then I found @glynco and his book Unjustifiable Means.
If you want to hear more about the story we touched on in the first half of ep5, the first 100 days of Gitmo, see @KarenGreenberg3's Least Worst Place.
I'm sure I'll think of more (tried to leave out wonkier stuff), but also massive props to @MargotWilliams and the rest of the team who built the Guantanamo Docket at the NYT. We were v lucky Margot collaborated with us on this project. nytimes.com/interactive/pr…
Takes a village to make a podcast, omitted to mention @sarahegeis as producer of that gorgeous #LoveMe episode.
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