Acknowledgements
Foreword by John Berger
Introduction
1. From Palestine to Guantanamo
2. From Medina to Guantanamo
3. From Palestine and Africa to house arrest in London
4. From Jordan to Belmarsh prison
5. From Egypt to Long Lartin prison
6. The South London families
7. Daughters and Sisters
8. Families surviving the war on terror
Afterword by Marina Warner
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Victoria Brittain is a respected journalist who tirelessly fought
the US government on Guantanamo Bay in articles and books. Her work
on women and children in conflict has transformed war reporting;
subverting tired militaristic narratives. She has been a consultant
to the UN on The Impact of Conflict on Women. She is a trustee of
Prisoners of Conscience and the author of The Meaning of Waiting
(Oberon, 2010), Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013) and co-author of Moazzam
Begg's Enemy Combatant (2007).
John Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.
His novel G. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972) won the Booker Prize,
and his essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing (Penguin, 1972), is
understood to be a classic of art history. He contributed the
foreword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).
Marina Warner is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and
history; her works include novels and short stories as well as
studies of art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She contributed an
introduction to Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013) and
the afterword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).
'A searching, sensitive, and wrenching account of the ordeal of the
women left behind, their torment, their endurance and courage,
their triumphs over the cruel 'extension of prison to home''
*Noam Chomsky*
'A window into an invisible world ... a reminder that abandoning
normal legal standards has serious consequences for the Rule of
Law'
*Helena Kennedy QC*
'A uniquely powerful and moving account of the tragic consequences
of policies which flout fundamental rights and the rule of law. It
adds a new and deeply disturbing dimension to the story of the
response to 9/11'
*Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC*
'The author's extraordinary empathy gives a voice to women who have
courageously endured unimaginable indignity from indefensible
laws'
*Louise Christian, solicitor for several Guantanamo prisoners and
their families*
'This is a book to make you gasp, weep, shout, but above all a book
to admire: the lovely writing, the complexities made clear, the
everyday heroism of survivors. It is a terrible story, beautifully
told'
*Beatrix Campbell*
'A landmark work that takes over your heart and head. In drawing
together lives scattered and devastated and made heroic by the 'war
on terror', Victoria Brittain, one of the greatest reporters, tells
us the truth about these dangerous times'
*John Pilger*
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