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He has survived death threats and attempts on his life since February 1989.  But Salman Rushdie’s luck just about ran

Some 260 Iranian writers, poets, artists, journalists, human rights activists and political figures signed a joint statement in solidari ...

The attack on Salman Rushdie was not an isolated incident, but connected to the political and cultural changes we are living through.

Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(LONDON and CAIRO) -- Since 1989, when the Iranian supreme leader of the time, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued an apostasy fatwa against the Indian-British Salman Rushdie, it has not been just the "The Satanic Verses" author who has been threatened and attacked. Multiple writers, translators and publishers have been targeted around

Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(LONDON and CAIRO) -- Since 1989, when the Iranian supreme leader of the time, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued an apostasy fatwa against the Indian-British Salman Rushdie, it has not been just the "The Satanic Verses" author who has been threatened and attacked. Multiple writers, translators and publishers have been targeted around the world by extremists with links to this fatwa, which included a religious death warrant for "all the editors and publishers" of the novel who were "aware of its contents." Rushdie was hospitaliz...