Salman Rushdie on the 2022 attack that nearly took his life, and writing his new book
This is an updated version of a story first published on April 14, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. 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 …