Salman Rushdie: Yeah, exactly. And the need for writers from other countries to have safe spaces in America, amongst other places. And then, yeah, it just turned out not to be a safe space for me.

Sir Salman Rushdie is sitting around 20 feet from his attacker Hadi Matar. He has not looked in the direction of his attacker, who has been studying at a yellow legal pad in front of him instantly.

Salman Rushdie's attacker is serving a 25-year state prison sentence but still faces federal terrorism charges arising from ...

FILE - Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, speaks to his defense team in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.

Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker is arrested after reportedly stabbing the author in the neck during a lecture at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. (Courtesy: Dr. Chip Howard).

The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author’s near-fatal ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. – A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.

FILE - Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman, File) MAYVILLE, N.Y.

Salman Rushdie's new memoir, 'Knife,' hits shelves on Tuesday, nearly two years after Hadi Matar allegedly nearly killed him in a stabbing attack.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — With a mix of humor and graphic detail, Salman Rushdie calmly told a jury Tuesday about the frenzied moments in August 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western ...

Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for ...