The Other Latif

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A major development in the case of Guantanamo detainee Abdul Latif Nasser. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our colle

Jul 19 2021
2 min

The United States of America

Despite being cleared for transfer back to his family in Morocco in 2016, Abdul Latif Nasser remains stuck at Guantanamo Bay. Why? Latif talks to some of the civil servan

Mar 17 2020
50 min

Cuba-ish

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 th

Mar 10 2020
57 min

Afghanistan

Latif investigates the mystery around Abdul Latif’s classified time in Afghanistan. He traces the government’s story through scrappy training camps, bombed out Buddhas, a

Mar 10 2020
1 h 02 min

Sudan

Latif turns his focus to Sudan, where his namesake spent time working on a sunflower farm. What could be suspicious about that? Latif scrutinizes the evidence to try to

Mar 10 2020
36 min

Morocco

Latif travels to Abdul Latif’s hometown of Casablanca, Morocco, to try and find out: was he radicalized? And if so, how? Latif begins by visiting the man’s family, but th

Mar 10 2020
46 min

My Namesake

We hear the evidence against Abdul Latif Nasser -- at least the evidence that has been leaked or declassified -- and we meet Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, his attorney, who con

Mar 10 2020
41 min

Introducing: The Other Latif

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 nam

Feb 21 2020
1 min

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What listeners say

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The way the audio was engineered made this podcast stand out from others I’ve listened to. It’s a work of art. Latif is a fantastic storyteller as well.

PhilodendronDenny · Nov 2025

This is an informative, engaging, and also infuriating podcast. Thank you so much Latif for your incredible investigative work on this intense situation. Phenomenal reporting, excellent production.

atman_asiya · Jan 2025

Although the podcast was often hard to listen to due to the content in regard to how detainees were treated by our government at Guantanamo, the story was so well told and Latif did a great job of humanizing The Other Latif who spent too many years locked up! I would recommend this storytelling to everyone!

Wilson6luv · Jan 2024

It’s been probably a year or more since I binged this on a (very long) roadtrip thru the American West. I love investigative podcasts and I listen to a lot of them, but this is the one I always point to as the pinnacle of the form. Better, even, than (the very excellent) Serial. Latif, you are an absolute pro. Fascinating, personal, and thorough with a ton of great, original reporting… a look at an issue that used to be at the top of the national consciousness but that got subsumed by all of the nonsense of the last administration through the lens of one person whose life was upended by it. Just brilliant.

lekoman32 · Sep 2022

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