Salman Rushdie‘s novel The Satantic Verses hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week. The novel, which forced the India-born author into ...

Shortly after its release, the book faced significant backlash, culminating in Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa urging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie and his publishers.

36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government, British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's controversial book "The Satanic Verses" has quietly returned to India. A "limited stock" of ...

In the East, however, the fatwa’s implications are far more sinister. ‘You must defend Rushdie,’ an Iranian writer told a British scholar recently. ‘In defending Rushdie you are defending us.’ In ...

Opposing the Muslim organizations calling for reban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses”, the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) on Monday urged the Muslims to remember iconic social ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — PEN America condemned the arrest of Reza Khandan, Iranian activist and husband of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, and demanded his immediate release.

The incident follows flooding caused by Storm Bert last month that led to the temporary closure of its Asian restaurant, Pen Yen ... married to novelist Sir Salman Rushdie’s son Zafar, tells ...