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Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American, has been threatened with death since 1989, a year after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, when the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for his assassination and set a bounty of $3 million for his death. For years, Rushdie had lived in hiding, taking ...
Author Salman Rushdie — the subject of a decades-old death threat from Iranian Muslim clerics — was knifed in the neck Friday in a stunning attack as he prepared to deliver a lecture in ...
Sir Salman Rushdie has laid bare his horror at lying in “a spectacular quantity of blood” after the frenzied onstage attack that very nearly claimed his life two years ago.. The British-Indian ...
A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader's endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death ...
A man has been taken into custody after Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage in New York state. The 75-year-old Indian-born British author, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the ...
Around 2000, Rushdie moved to New York, and spent years doing hundreds of literary events and book tours. And then came the attack in 2022, which lasted just 27 seconds but left Rushdie severely ...
Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. “This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take ...
Salman Rushdie isn't limiting himself to just his new memoir to recount the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him. Ahead of the release of his newest memoir, "Knife," the "Satanic Verses ...