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 on the 2022 attack that nearly took his life, and writing his book "Knife" "The thing that's different now is that it's also coming from progressive voices," he said.

I read novelist Salman Rushdie’s harrowing account of his near-assassination about a year ago. It’s still etched in my mind. In his memoir “Knife,” Rushdie described in detail how he ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in ...

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.

A New Jersey man who nearly killed world-renowned author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack on a New York stage has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, NJ, was ...

Why did Salman Rushdie, famed author of “The Satanic Verses” and radical Islam’s most famous heretic, abruptly bow out of speaking at Claremont McKenna College’s graduation ceremony—and ...

The New Jersey man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022 has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.