Hadi Matar, the defendant, said he believed Mr. Rushdie to be a hypocrite. His attack left the acclaimed author blind in one ...

Hadi Matar was convicted in the 2022 stabbing attack on the author. A New Jersey man convicted of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie, while on stage at a ...

Hadi Matar, the man who severely injured novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 stabbing attack, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison — the maximum for attempted murder. Matar, 27, was found ...

Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February over the horrific attack that saw him try to carry out a decades-old fatwa by ambushing the 77-year-old novelist as he ...

Booker Prize-winning novelist Salman Rushdie is reflecting on the stabbing that occurred during a lecture he was giving in ...

A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. During the trial, the 77-year-old author was the key witness, describing how he believed he was dying when a masked ...

Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi ...

The 77-year-old author was left critically injured after he was stabbed repeatedly onstage just moments before he was due to ...

An American-Lebanese man will be sentenced on Friday (local time) for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife ...

At the 2025 Hay Festival, Salman Rushdie revealed that he prefers to ignore the existence of artificial intelligence and confessed he has “never experimented” with it. He thinks writers remain secure ...

Lebanese-American Hadi Matar to face federal charges of terrorism, carrying potential life sentence, for allegedly trying to execute Iranian fatwa that accused writer of blasphemy ...

Hadi Matar, 27, stood quietly as the judge pronounced the sentence. He did not deny attacking Rushdie, and when he was invited to address the court before being sentenced, Matar got in a few last ...