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‘Until I was 35, the most significant relationship I’d had as an adult was with an iguana.’
Mansoor Adayfi was only 19 when he arrived at the prison camp at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Growing up in a tiny village in the mountains of Yemen, “I didn’t know much about the world,” he wrote in his Modern Love essay. “Now my world was Guantánamo.”
Mansoor spent his first seven years in an isolation cell. Once he was transferred to a communal block, his world expanded. He and his fellow detainees started organizing informal classes for one another. A former chef taught a cooking class. Another man taught a marriage class, where they learned about love.
In this class, they shared their views on how men should treat women, they discussed what it would feel like to meet the person you love, and they even simulated an engagement and wedding celebration. “I have never been in love, but now I could feel its sweetness,” Mansoor said.
Today, we listen to Mansoor's essay and then hear an update from him. Since Guantánamo, he has experienced one of the best moments of his life — and one of the most painful. He talks to our host, Anna Martin, about what he would now teach others about the art of love.
Mansoor Adayfi is the author of “Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo.”
Hosted by: Anna Martin
Produced by: Hans Buetow, Julia Botero and Anna Martin
Edited by: Sara Sarasohn
Executive Producer: Wendy Dorr
Engineered by: Dan Powell
Theme Music: Dan Powell
Original Music: Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto
Essay by: Mansoor Adayfi
Read by: Edoardo Ballerini
Founder, Modern Love: Daniel Jones
Editor, Modern Love Projects: Miya Lee
Special thanks: Mahima Chablani, Renan Borelli, Jeffrey Miranda, Julia Simon, Lisa Tobin, Sam Dolnick, and Ryan Wegner and Anna Diamond at Audm.
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