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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

The Satanic Verses

British-American author Salman Rushdie attends the 75th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, New York City, November 20, 2024. (Dimitrios Kambouris / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
February 11, 2025, 1:52 pm
Salman Rushdie’s attacker came ‘dangerously close’ to killing him, prosecutors say
NY court hears testimony from witnesses to 2022 stabbing, when British-American author was targeted over ‘The Satanic Verses’; defendant says ‘free Palestine’ as he enters court
By AFP
British author Salman Rushdie in a selfie he posted on social media, February 7, 2023 (Twitter)
February 7, 2023, 12:02 pm
In 1st interview after attack, Salman Rushdie says now ‘very difficult’ to write
Author indicates he suffers from PTSD along with loss of sight in one eye and use of a hand; doesn’t know if it was an error to let his guard down decades after fatwa
By AFP
Salman Rushdie in New York, November 15, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
October 23, 2022, 7:39 pm
Salman Rushdie ‘going to live’ but has lost use of eye and hand, says agent
Literary representative for ‘The Satanic Verses’ author tells newspaper he suffered wounds to his neck, chest and torso in ‘brutal attack’ in New York in August
By AP
In this file photo taken on May 27, 1989, an islamic man holds a sign calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie near the Westminster Bridge in London. (AFP)
August 19, 2022, 12:07 am
For Arab authors, stabbing of Rushdie rekindles old fears
The publication of ‘The Satanic Verses’ in 1988 sparked mass protests in India and Pakistan, partly for depicting Prophet Mohammed in casual and familiar language
By AFP
Defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, and Hadi Matar, 24, right, listen during an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY, August 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)
August 18, 2022, 11:01 pm
Rushdie’s stabber Hadi Matar denied bail; judge tells lawyers not to speak to press
Assailant’s attorney complains media coverage could potentially lead to a biased jury, says, ‘He’s entitled to due process, no matter what he’s accused of’
By CAROLYN THOMPSON
The front cover of the book "The Satanic Verses" by author Salman Rushdie is shown in London, February 15, 1989. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)
August 14, 2022, 5:55 am
Why decades later, Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial
The 1988 book sparked outrage for appearing to mock the foundations of Islam by challenging the divine nature of the Quran
By Myriam Renaud
Salman Rushdie speaking in Sao Paulo on May 14, 2014. (Flickr/Greg Salibian)
February 11, 2019, 8:23 am
‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
Iranian death sentence that sent the famed Indo-British author into years of hiding launched a new era of ‘competitive intolerance’ targeting writers, says rights advocate
By Fiachra GIBBONS
William Nygaard delivers keynote speech on his experience and vision of self-censorship on February 27, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 9, 2018, 11:04 pm
Norway accuses foreign nationals of 1993 ‘Satanic Verses’ attack
William Nygaard was shot three times in the back following publication of Salman Rushdie’s book, leading to strained ties between Oslo and Iran
By AFP
File: Salman Rushdie speaks with university students. (CC-BY-SA, Nrbelex, Wikimedia Commons)
April 8, 2013, 11:17 pm
Salman Rushdie recalls Thatcher’s ‘touch of tenderness’
Author whose life was threatened by Iran remembers British PM’s protection and his own mixed feelings for the Iron Lady
File: Salman Rushdie speaks with university students. (CC-BY-SA, Nrbelex, Wikimedia Commons)
September 17, 2012, 4:40 am
Salman Rushdie bounty increases as Muslim world fumes at prophet insults
Reward for killing the author rises to $3.3 million
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