The British Library in London is hosting an evening with British author Salman Rushdie today. The public is invited to attend in person or watch a live broadcast, and among the other participants are Mona Arishi, Melfin Brag, Mariella Frostrop, Mina Kandasami, Cathy Litt, Bolin Melville, Margie Orford, Philip Sands, Burhan Sunmis, and Alan Tinp.
The event will take place two months after Rushdie was attacked on August 12 in New York just before giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute. The young man suffered significant injuries to his neck and trunk and was brought to the hospital.
Rushdie spoke a few weeks before he was attacked, and he said, and he said, and he said, and he said. The attack took place more than three decades after Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, the supreme guide of Iran at the time, issued a fatwa or fatwa in which he called on Muslims to assassinate the writer a few months after the publication of “demonic verses.” According to the website of the German weekly magazine Stern, his life has returned to “quite normal again.”
The gathering follows a related occasion that took place in New York City a week after Rushdie’s attack.
Standing with Salman: He defended the freedom of writing was the event’s title, and people gathered near the New York Public Library stairs to watch the book, which was being read aloud by Jay Talis, Siri Hosfidt, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Reginald Dwayne Bings. The evening of Salman Rushdie will also be broadcast live on The British Library platform, and free tickets can be reserved for in-person or virtual attendance.
Salman Rushdie hosts an evening at the British Library this evening following his stabbing.
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