About Mansoor Adayfi

Mansoor Adayfi, originally from Yemen, is a writer and former detainee in the Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp who was held for over fourteen years without charge before being transferred to Serbia. His essays have appeared in the New York Times’ Modern Love column and Op-Ed page, the edited collection Witnessing Torture (Palgrave 2018), and the “Ode to the Sea” art exhibition catalogue. He also contributed to radio documentaries which aired on BBC radio, a CBC podcast, and NPR. In 2019 he was awarded the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writing that illuminates issues of social justice. His memoir of his time at Guantánamo, Don’t Forget Us Here, was published in 2021 by Hachette Books.