A liberal arts community finds itself hosting the closely watched trial of man accused of stabbing novelist in 2022
The author Salman Rushdie will this week come face to face with the man accused of trying to take his life in a frenzied knife attack during a 2022 literary festival near the snowy, lakeside New York community that finds itself hosting the closely watched trial.
Hadi Matar’s twice-delayed trial began on Monday reviving memories of the religious forces that sought to destroy Rushdie, 77, since a fatwa was issued by Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988.