** My Guantanamo Diary has been selected as a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal and has received the 2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award.

My Guantanamo Diary grew out of an April 30, 2006 Washington Post article written by Mahvish Khan while she was a law student. Click here to read the article.

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Rephrased into poetry from My Guantanamo Diary:

This act of kindness

There was No. 1009
an 80-year-old paraplegic
white-bearded grandfather
who clung to me
when it was time
for me to leave

No. 1154
43-year-old
Dr. Ali Shah
choked back tears
as he recalled
the last time
he saw his daughter

No. 1021
Chaman Guil
crouched in his cage
and wept out of fear
that his family
would forget him

No. 977
Izzatullah
a six-foot Afghan
granted permission
to view a home video
of his family
who he had not seen in
five years

When he saw his
children on tape
he inched closer
to the screen
laughing and weeping

Finally he said
For the rest of my life
I will remember this act
of kindness

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