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Salman Rushdie's "The Eleventh Hour" will mark his first published fiction since being stabbed at a lecture in New York in 2022.
British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is set to publish his first major work of fiction later this year since he was ...
Attacks against Rushdie have been feared since the late 1980s after his novel The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by ...
British-American novelist Salman Rushdie will publish his first major work of fiction since the brutal stabbing that blinded ...
I recently read Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses to find out why it is controversial. Rushdie’s notoriety as a writer is probably due in large part to the issue of a fatwah by the Ayatollah ...
Masih Alinejad greets friends and supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP) ...
In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared that Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, was blasphemous and pronounced a death sentence against its author. For over a decade, Rushdie ...
Rushdie lived in hiding for years after Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa on him for his “blasphemous” novel “The Satanic Verses.” So it was a surprise when Rushdie entered the seminar classroom not ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A person stands on the porch of the international headquarters of the Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass., Oct ...
A sex cult leader who brainwashed and abused children can be moved to an open prison, the Parole Board has said. Colin Batley was jailed for a minimum of 11 years and was warned in 2011 that he ...