Mahvish Khan: 'My Guantanamo Diary'

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 | 7:30pm
Location: Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street.

Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. A fluent Pashto speaker, she volunteered to translate for prisoners at Guantanamo where she gained a uniquely personal insight into the prisoners' plight and that of their families. For Khan the experience was a validation of her Afghan heritage?as well as her American freedoms, which allowed her to intervene at Guantanamo purely out of her sense that it was the right thing to do. Khan's story, My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me, is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is ?and who we are. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company.

Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall members receive priority seating.