Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping and Rendition

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Copyright © 2007 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center

LISTEN
• Entire event

LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
• Introduction by Larry Siems
• Dorothea Dieckmann reads from Guantánamo
• Antoine Audouard reads from Journey to Hell by Mourad Benchallali & Antoine Audouard
• Arnon Grunberg reads “At Guantánamo There Is No Why”
• Alex Gibney reads from the Department of Defense interrogation log of detainee Al-Khatani
• Francine Prose reads from FBI e-mail messages from Guantánamo
• Mark Danner reads from declaration of detainee #______, Abu Ghraib Prison
• Daoud Heidami & Daniel Oreskes read from a transcript of Combatant Status Review tribunal hearing of “Mustafa”
• Rose Styron reads “The General,” by Isabel Hilton
• Breyten Breytenbach reads his poem “letter to butcher from abroad”
• Lisa Appignanesi reads from the final, unfinished column of Anna Politkovskaya
• Nadine Gordimer reads from Scatter the Ashes and Go, by Mongane Wally Serote

From the PEN Blogs

• Timothy Liu:
The evening’s unintended lesson seemed to be this: when you’ve got the hard facts about torture, secret detention, extraordinary rendition and the…[More]