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Podcast: Modern Love
Episode: Marriage Classes at GuantĂĄnamo
Description: Mansoor Adayfi was only 19 when he arrived at the prison camp at the GuantaĚnamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Growing up in a tiny village in the mountains of Yemen, âI didnât know much about the world,â he said. âNow my world was GuantaĚnamo.âFor a period during his 14 years there, he and his fellow detainees organized informal classes for one another. There was a cooking class, taught by a former chef. In a marriage class, they learned about love. They shared their views on how men should treat women, they discussed what it would feel like to meet the...