Latif heads to Guantanamo Bay to try to speak to his namesake. Before he gets there, he attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: why Cuba? Why in the world did the United States pick this sleepy military base in the Caribbean to house “the worst of the worst”? He tours the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and against all odds, manages to see his d ... Show More
Mar 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 6
<p>The Other Latif</p>
<p>Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with another man: Abdul Latif Nasser, detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. gov ... Show More
50m 53s
Feb 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 2
<p>The Other Latif</p>
<p><em>Radiolab’s</em> Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with another man: Abdul Latif Nasser, detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. The ... Show More
46m 7s
Feb 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 3
<p>The Other Latif</p>
<p><em>Radiolab’s</em> Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with another man: Abdul Latif Nasser, detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. The ... Show More
36m 59s
Feb 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 4
<p>The Other Latif</p>
<p>Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with another man: Abdul Latif Nasser, detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. gov ... Show More
1h 2m
Jan 2021
The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan called Shah Sadar Din, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from home, changed her name from Fouzia Azeem, auditioned for Pakistan Idol, and eventually became “Pakistan’s first so ... Show More
38m 3s
Jun 2023
Searching for Justice at Guantanamo: Tainted evidence and the fight for accountability
When the prison at Guantanamo Bay was opened, it was announced that it would hold terror suspects, picked up by the US in their War on Terror. It quickly became a dungeon that tortured its inmates and violated some of the most basic principles of humanity. Subsequent presidents, ... Show More
31m 43s
Oct 2021
#226 Jason Flom with Atif Rafay
<p>Atif Rafay was a thriving, brilliant, and happy student who had just finished his freshman year at Cornell University. On a weekend trip in July of 1994, while visiting his family in Bellevue, Washington, Atif Rafay’s mother, father, and sister were all brutally murdered in th ... Show More
42m 45s
<p><b>The Other Latif</b></p>
<p><em><span>Radiolab’s</span></em><span><span> </span>Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with another man: Abdul Latif Nass ... Show More