Murat Kurnaz, a Bremen-born Muslim living in Germany with a Turkish passport, spent five years in Guantánamo. After reading his recently published book, Julia Gerlach sums up that it is not Kurnaz that is a security risk – but the story he has chronicled
The book "Poems from Guantanamo" is a phenomenon: out of thousands of poems written by the detainees, 22 made it past the US censors. Now it's clear that the Islamists have also arrived on the Modernist poetry scene. By Stefan Weidner
Murat Kurnaz, a Bremen-born Muslim living in Germany with a Turkish passport, spent five years in Guantánamo. After reading his recently published book, Julia Gerlach sums up that it is not Kurnaz that is a security risk – but the story he has chronicled