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Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for ...
Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.
The U.S. strike against Iran on Saturday night has ignited fears that Iran may choose to orchestrate attacks against ...
Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi ...
From surreal fables to searing memoirs, Salman Rushdie has spent the last decade defying expectations. As he turns 78, we ...
The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie, leaving him blind in one eye, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum term possible in the case. Friday’s sentencing hearing was the ...
The man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in 2022 has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison. Matar next faces a federal trial on terrorism-related charges.
Celebrate Salman Rushdie’s birthday with a look at why his novels still matter today. Bold, brilliant, and more relevant than ...
Hadi Matar was sentenced to 25 years for the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie. Matar also received a concurrent seven-year sentence for assaulting Henry Reese.
Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall. It’s his first published fiction since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized in 2022.
One Wednesday night in November 2014, New York’s prestigious Columbia University played host to Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider.