Roya Hakakian
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Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American Jewish writer, journalist, and political commentator. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author
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Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
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On August 12, 2022, Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Hadi Matar as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in
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…well-being of the American democracy was entwined with the well-being of other democracies and democratic activists around the world. Following the 2022 attack on British-American writer Salman Rushdie in New York, Hakakian read excerpts of Rushdie’s work at the New York Public Library alongside other writers…
Amphitheater stage where the attack occurred, as seen on July 20, 2022
Rushdie two years after the stabbing, wearing a darkened lens to cover his injured eye
Salman Rushdie 2018
Henry Reese portrait