"My Guantanamo Diary" event with author Mahvish Rukhsana Khan
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Multipurpose Room in the student services center, UCSD.Address: 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA, 92093
Cost: Free


Mahvish Rukhsana Khan's 'My Guantánamo Diary'

My Guantánamo Diary The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. By Mahvish Rukhsana Khan. Illustrated. 302 pages. $25.95. PublicAffairs.
In 2005, while a law student at the University of Miami, Mahvish Rukhsana Khan decided to volunteer as an interpreter for Afghan detainees at Guantánamo Bay. The American daughter of Afghan immigrants (her parents are Johns Hopkins-educated physicians), Khan thought it unfair that the detainees could not understand their lawyers, who did not speak Pashto, and although she didn't know whether they were guilty, she believed they were entitled to prove their innocence.

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