In “Guantanamo Diary,” Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 44, describes beatings, death threats, sexual humiliation and a mock execution, according to an advance copy of the book. Excerpts of the memoir ...

I also wanted to show Mohamedou a copy of his book. I wanted him to see the power of its cover, which features the black bars of the government’s redactions, with just the title, his name, and ...

Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Slahi wrote the book, Guantanamo Diary, describing what he'd been through. He's in such a legal limbo that he hasn't been able to receive his own copy of the book.

Enter the handwritten diary of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Guantanamo detainee since 2002; a fluent, engaging and at times eloquent writer, even in his fourth language, English; and the undisputed ...

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantánamo Diary” resembles, in both its details and the intention of its telling, slave narratives of the American South.

"Guantanamo Diary," the first book written by a still-imprisoned detainee, debuts at No. 14 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

But even if Guantánamo Diary is not a perfect book, it is a necessary one. The author is Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian Muslim. In 1988, he won a scholarship to attend college in Germany.

In 2005, Slahi wrote a 446-page handwritten account of his imprisonment, titled Guantanamo Diary.When it was published in January 2015, heavily redacted by government censors, the book made Slahi ...

Enter the handwritten diary of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Guantanamo detainee since 2002; a fluent, engaging and at times eloquent writer, even in his fourth language, English; and the undisputed ...

Reporting from WASHINGTON — One of the longest-held prisoners at Guantanamo Bay alleges in a book to be published Tuesday that he was tortured and abused during his early years in U.S. captivity ...