Mustafa, Khaled Ben - short clip - ADayintheLife
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| (man speaking French) | 0:00 | |
| Translator | The day starts very early, | 0:07 |
| with a morning prayer. | 0:08 | |
| We all wake up around... | 0:10 | |
| It depends whether it is winter or summer. | 0:11 | |
| Around 5:30 AM. | 0:13 | |
| We all pray. | 0:15 | |
| Usually, this is a peaceful time. | 0:17 | |
| Mornings are very peaceful. | 0:19 | |
| We pray; maybe a half hour or 45 minutes later, | 0:21 | |
| it is breakfast time. | 0:25 | |
| Breakfast, the food improved with time. | 0:27 | |
| At first, it wasn't good at all. | 0:30 | |
| Small portions, not clean. | 0:32 | |
| After we negotiated, after our problems, it became good. | 0:34 | |
| So I will describe a good day. | 0:38 | |
| There's breakfast. | 0:40 | |
| Breakfast is one glass of milk, eggs, | 0:42 | |
| a slice of bread, fruit. | 0:44 | |
| That's it. | 0:46 | |
| We eat, no problem. | 0:47 | |
| They give us enough time. | 0:49 | |
| At the end, things are better, you see. | 0:50 | |
| At the beginning, they don't give you enough time. | 0:52 | |
| At the end, it was better. | 0:55 | |
| They give us enough time. | 0:56 | |
| So they give us time to eat. | 0:58 | |
| They come to pick up the dishes. | 0:59 | |
| The plates are paper plates. | 1:01 | |
| The spoons are plastic spoons. | 1:03 | |
| The cups are plastic cups. | 1:05 | |
| Nothing hard, nothing made of metal. | 1:06 | |
| For instance, eye glasses. | 1:08 | |
| We had our eye glasses, | 1:11 | |
| but without this part, without the arms. | 1:12 | |
| Eye glasses have a plastic frame, | 1:14 | |
| and here, there's an elastic band. | 1:16 | |
| Because for them, no dangerous objects are allowed. | 1:19 | |
| The toothbrush is this small. | 1:23 | |
| You hold it, and then you brush your teeth. | 1:25 | |
| Not a big toothbrush. | 1:27 | |
| (man speaking French) | 1:29 | |
| So they collect the plates, and then we can rest some more. | 1:43 | |
| We can return to sleep for a little while. | 1:46 | |
| We read the Qur'an. | 1:48 | |
| Some people use their time there to memorize the Qur'an. | 1:50 | |
| The goal of each Muslim during his lifetime | 1:53 | |
| is to memorize the whole Qur'an, about 600 pages long. | 1:55 | |
| We learn the Qur'an in parts. | 1:59 | |
| We read; we're allowed to read it. | 2:01 | |
| It is practically the only book we have in our cell. | 2:03 | |
| We don't go out every day. | 2:08 | |
| I think we go out three times a week. | 2:09 | |
| Once, for my own amusement, | 2:12 | |
| I computed how many hours a year | 2:13 | |
| I got to walk outside in the yard. | 2:16 | |
| I figured out that in one year, it added up to 24 hours. | 2:18 | |
| That is really nothing. | 2:23 | |
| We walk for about 15 minutes | 2:24 | |
| every three days or every other day. | 2:27 | |
| A short 15 minute walk, the shower, five minutes tops, | 2:29 | |
| because then they turn the water off. | 2:33 | |
| So we take two or three showers a week. | 2:35 | |
| After the afternoon prayer, | 2:40 | |
| we usually chat among ourselves. | 2:42 | |
| Later, we get organized with our neighbors, | 2:45 | |
| and we learn from each other. | 2:47 | |
| For instance, if someone knows the Arabic language well, | 2:48 | |
| he will teach it to us. | 2:51 | |
| And we do the same. | 2:53 | |
| If we know something among ourselves, | 2:54 | |
| we talk about the customs of our countries, okay? | 2:57 | |
| Everyone says, "Well, in my country, we do this and that." | 3:00 | |
| And we learn a lot from each other. | 3:03 | |
| In Guantanamo, there are about 50 different nationalities. | 3:06 | |
| It is really... | 3:10 | |
| The whole world is in Guantanamo. | 3:11 | |
| The whole Earth is in Guantanamo. | 3:14 | |
| There's everything there. | 3:16 | |
| So we learn a lot from each other. | 3:17 | |
| At the end of the afternoon, around seven or 8:00 PM, | 3:21 | |
| the sun sets, we have a prayer then, then we eat. | 3:24 | |
| We talk a bit more. | 3:28 | |
| There's an evening prayer one hour and a half later. | 3:29 | |
| And then we go to bed early. | 3:32 | |
| The problem is that we need to balance things out. | 3:35 | |
| We cannot do only what we want | 3:37 | |
| because we don't want to disturb our neighbors | 3:39 | |
| since we are in cages. | 3:41 | |
| So usually, everyone follows the same program. | 3:43 | |
| That's it. | 3:47 |
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