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Copies of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” being burned in Britain after it was published in 1988. Mr. Rushdie was stabbed last week in Western New York.
Salman Rushdie, who survived a brutal knife attack in 2022, canceled a speech at Claremont McKenna College after Muslim students condemned his invitation. Ingrid Jacques USA TODAY ...
Renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie has backed out of a college commencement speech at the eleventh hour amid intensifying backlash over “troubling statements.”. Claremont McKenna College ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two summers ago, Salman Rushdie was stabbed by an Islamist radical while giving a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. The attack left him blind in one eye and his body and face ...
In August, the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck. The novelist has spent decades living under the threat of a hit put out by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. The religious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...