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Bestselling author Dave Eggers, whose most recent book is a fictionalized memoir of a Sudanese refugee, and Valentino Achak Deng, the refugee who inspired the novel, emphasized the power of the written word in educating the public about genocide in Darfur in a conversation at Memorial Church yesterday. The two men fielded questions about how they wrote the book, titled “What is the What,” and Eggers’ choice to relate Valentino’s story through a novel rather than through a traditional nonfiction medium. Such a decision, Eggers explained, came after prolonged...
...signed statement made on Oct. 20, 2004, and seen by Time, Abbasi repudiated all the claims made in the hand-written document and described the allegations against Hicks as "ludicrous in their content (yet believed by dense interrogators)." But Time has learned that Abbasi's memoir of the prisoner he repeatedly refers to as "Golden Boy" may have been used by those interrogators to build a case against the Australian terror suspect, who has been in Guantánamo Bay since 2001. Hicks' lawyers have also questioned the veracity of the document's content. Hicks' name, like most others...
...memoir, obtained by Time last week, contains detailed recollections of "David Matthew Hicks," who Abbasi says trained in Afghanistan in the same al-Qaeda camps as Abbasi and failed British shoe bomber Richard Reid. Abbasi says he first met Hicks during a fitness exercise that involved jogging around their Al Farooq training camp near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. He writes that Hicks was teamed in the camp with Filipino recruits from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...Abbasi was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 after being caught carrying a grenade in his underpants. His U.K.-based lawyer, Louise Christian, declined to comment on the memoir. She said Abbasi has not given any media interviews about his internment. U.S. Military Judge Susan Crawford is currently considering whether to recommend that Hicks face charges of attempted murder and providing support for terrorism. If the charges are laid, they would be heard by a U.S. Military Commission. Says Hicks' U.S.-appointed defender, military lawyer Major Michael Mori, of Abbasi's memoir: "It's easy to make allegations, but I want...
...number of good books in the last few years have toed the line between fact and fiction: they read like memoirs or autobiographies, but something pushes them into the realm of novel, whether it’s the implausible (as in Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones”), the unlikely (as in Mitch Albom’s “For One More Day”), or simply a reconstruction of dialogues long gone. Usually, the publisher will help you out a little, labeling something as either fiction or memoir. But then we come...