Mohamedou Ould Salahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi is an internationally-acclaimed author who currently holds positions aswriter in residence with NITE and De Balie in the Netherlands.
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Mohamedou Ould Salahi
Mohamedou was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. Hisfamily moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he attended school andearned a scholarship to study electrical engineering at Gerhard-Mercator University in Duisburg,Germany. In 2001, he was living and working in his home country of Mauritania when he wasdetained and renditioned to Jordan, beginning an ordeal that he would chronicle in hisinternationally-bestselling Guantánamo Diary. The manuscript, which he wrote in his isolationcell in the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, remained classified for almost eight yearsand was finally released, with substantial redactions, in 2013. It was first published in the UnitedStates and United Kingdom in January, 2015, and has since been published in twenty-fivelanguages.
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After fifteen years of detention, Mohamedou was released on October 17 th , 2016 to Mauritania. The following year he published a “restored edition” of Guantánamo Diary, filling in the U.S. government’s redactions, and in 2021 the book was adapted for film as “TheMauritanian,” directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, and Benedict Cumberbatch. In February 2021 Mohamedou’s first novel, The Actual True Story ofAhmed and Zarga, was published by Ohio University Press.Mohamedou’s projects with NNT/NITE include co-writing the theater production Yara’sWedding, based on Edward Said’s Orientalism, which premiered in February 2023, and he wasawarded the Netherlands PAX Peace Prize (Verededuif) in 2022 and The Marco Borradori Prize Lugao / Switzerland in September 2023.
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