Art from Guantánamo Bay

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• Catalog: Artwork — Art from Guantánamo Bay

  Artwork On View Artwork by Abdulmalik Abud, Ahmed Rabbani, Ammar Al-Baluchi, Djamel Ameziane, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Khalid Qasim, Moath Al-Alwi, and Muhammad Ansi

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• Catalog: Essays — Art from Guantánamo Bay

  If the wind silences you, there is just the ebb and flow.   It is only under compulsion that we daily come and go.   Do you understand we were cast into this gloom?   You have colluded with our enemie...

• Moath al-Alwi — Art from Guantánamo Bay

  Moath al-Alwi, originally from Yemen, remains at Guantánamo, where he has been detained since 2002, despite having been cleared for release in January 2022. He paints as well as creating elaborate mod...

• Making Art at Guantánamo — Art from Guantánamo Bay

    How and why was art made by detainees Drawing exercises (color studies, still lives of fruit, and shading studies of vessels) illustrate how artwork was made in an official art class, taught by mili...

• Mansoor Adayfi — Art from Guantánamo Bay

  Around the World in 80 Days. His memoir, Don’t Forget Us Here, is about his time at Guantánamo and the resilience of the human spirit. He has published numerous other essays in the New York Times and...