Salman Rushdie

Reports

What is a fatwa? A religious studies professor explains – by Myriam Renaud

Kaaynan - September 7, 2022

When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling...

Arts and Entertainment

Salman Rushdie wasn’t the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read their book – by Jonathan Bate

Kaaynan - September 7, 2022

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted that he had only “read like two pages”...