The religious decree, like one issued against author Salman Rushdie, calls on Muslims to bring down the American and Israeli ...

Salman Rushdie, the author with a $3 million bounty on his head for his 1988 book “The Satanic Verses,” once had a fatwa issued against him before he was stabbed in the neck by a masked assailant.

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 ...

Salman Rushdie with his book "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," in Berlin on May 16, 2024. AFP via Getty Images The scene of the stabbing on Aug. 12, 2022.

Salman Rushdie on Tuesday came face to face with the man accused of nearly killing him, describing the attack in gruesome detail in court — where he took off his glasses to reveal his blind ...

Since 1989, threats to Salman Rushdie have sparked debates over free speech Last week's attack has reignited debates over free speech, censorship and offensiveness that were already heated back in ...

Author Salman Rushdie warned that freedom of expression is at risk in a rare public speech since he survived a stabbing attack last year. “We live in a moment, I think, at which freedom of ...

Salman Rushdie sais that part of him "can't be bothered" to attend the trial for the person who's accused of trying to kill him in August 2022.

Salman Rushdie faced assassination attempts for years and, in 2022, a knife-wielding attacker nearly killed him. He tells the story in his newest book, "Knife," out Tuesday.

Author Salman Rushdie is likely to lose one of his eyes and is currently on a ventilator after he was attacked on stage at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday, according to his agent.

Forty years after the publication of “Midnight’s Children,” author Salman Rushdie said he believes the India he was brought up in “is crumbling.” His acclaimed book, which won the Booker ...