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News — After holding them for decades without charge, the United States has transferred 11 Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo Bay detention camp to Oman. The transferred men include Moath al-Alwi, whose testimony and artwork are featured in a new book, The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak, co-edited by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath al-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government. 

The book was co-edited by Alexandra Moore, director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University, State University of New York; and Elizabeth Swanson,  professor of literature and human rights at Babson College.

Deaf Walls Speak will be released in paperback on Jan. 11 by Palgrave Macmillan. To learn more and to read the preface, .