Movement and Stasis: Contemporary Mauritanian Literature

  By July Blalack, Words without Borders, May 2021 The release of the Hollywood film The Mauritanian earlier this year made a harrowing tale of torture and injustice at Guantánamo Bay the first Mauritanian story to truly reach the world. When the book the film was based on—Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi—came out in 2015, there were …

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