Ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Rabbani hopes to open a restaurant based on recipes he learnt while in prison – using funds raised from sales of his art. – AFP pic, May 7, 2023.
WHEN Ahmed Rabbani ran out of paint to satisfy his artistic yearnings during 20 years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, he turned to whatever came to hand – dirt, coffee grinds and even spices such as turmeric from the prison canteen. “Through painting, I would feel myself outside Guantanamo,” the 53-year-old Pakistani said this week at an exhibition of his work in the port city of Karachi.
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