Description
Mohamedou Ould Salahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a came lherder. His family moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he attended school and earned a scholarship to study electrical engineering at Gerhard-Mercator University in Duisburg / Germany. In 2001, he was living and working in his home country of Mauritania when he was detained and renditioned to Jordan, beginning an ordeal that he would chronicle in his internationally-bestselling Guantánamo Diary. The manuscript, which he wrote in his isolation cell in the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, remained classified for almost eight years and was finally released, with substantial redactions, in 2013. It was first published in the United States and United Kingdom in January, 2015, and has since been published in twenty-five languages. After fifteen years of detention, Mohamedou was released on October 17th, 2016 to Mauritania. The following year he published a “restored edition” of Guantánamo Diary, filling in the U.S. government’s redactions, and in February 2021 his first novel, The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga, published by Ohio University Press.Period | 14 Mar 2022 |
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Event type | Other |
Location | EdinburghShow on map |
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Activities
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Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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International Studies Association 2023 Annual Convention
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Torture and Fair Trial in the Guantanamo Military Commissions
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The Guantanamo Military Commissions: An insider's perspective
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Research output
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How torture and national security have corrupted the right to fair trial in the 9/11 military commissions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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US counterterrorism and the denial of fundamental rights from torture to fair trial
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Human rights, liberal democracies and challenges of national security
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Human Rights in Times of Transition: Liberal Democracies and the Challenges of National Security
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Introductory note to the United Nations revised minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners (Nelson Mandela rules)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Getting to Grips with Guantánamo I: Rendition to the Caribbean
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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The Shadows of Torture: Reporting from Guantanamo
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Reflections on human rights and contemporary challenges raised by national security discourse
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Getting to Grips with Guantánamo II: Military Commissions & Law of War Detention
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Projects
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Getting to Grips with Guantanamo
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Understanding Environmental Conditions of Detention: Guarding against Prohibited Treatment
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Torture on Trial
Project: Research