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One Wednesday night in November 2014, New York’s prestigious Columbia University played host to Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider.
NEW YORK, NY – Sir Salman Rushdie testified on February 11 in the trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of attempting to kill him during a literary event in Chautauqua, New York, in August 2022.
Sir Salman Rushdie is "over" the knife attack which almost killed him because he's found "closure". The 77-year-old author was left critically injured after he was stabbed repeatedly onstage just ...
Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced to 25 years last month after repeatedly ...
Author Salman Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for his assassination in 1989, declaring Rushdie's novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous and an insult ...
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 ...
Salman Rushdie, the author who was nearly murdered three years ago because of a novel he wrote, once articulated what he thought supporting free speech meant: “The defense of free expression ...
MAYVILLE, N.Y. – The man convicted of trying to stab Salman Rushdie to death was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for the attack, which left the acclaimed author critically injured and ...
Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” led to death threats in the 1980s, was attacked at a lecture series in New York in 2022. The New Jersey man who tried to kill acclaimed ...
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 ...
MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison.