"Jelly" Notebook

Title: "Jelly" Notebook
Creator: Adnan Mohammad Hasan
Date Created: Between 1980 and 1989
Date: 1980/1989
Language: Arabic
Collection: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections
Program: International Digital Ephemera Project

Description: Prisoners used a discarded jello box to create a cover for a notebook, fastened together with a medical bandage glued to the inside of the cover. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book entitled ʿIlm al-Maʿānī. The title is written in large letters on page one. The first 11 of the 45 pages have writing. Starting from the back, the last four pages contain writing, upside down. This was the last notebook they used and they did not fill it.