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The celebrated author is currently recovering from serious injuries after an attack on his life

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All guests at the event have been invited by organisers to begin their sessions with a sentence from one of Salman Rushdie’s works.

Iran foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said freedom of speech does not justify Salman Rushdie insulting religion and that only he and his supporters were "worthy of blame" for the stabbing

Plus: The editors reaffirm free speech absolutism in the wake of the recent attack on Salman Rushdie.

"Top Chef" host and judge Padma Lakshmi is "relieved" that her ex-husband, author Salman Rushdie, is on the road to recovery after being stabbed multiple times at a lecture in upstate New York last week.

Intelligence officials say Hadi Matar, 25, was speaking to members of the Revolutionary Guard over social media

The assault on Rushdie is an attack on those who speak out against all forms of extremism

Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran's former supreme leader Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author's death. The logo of Lebanon's Iran-armed Hezbollah group adorns small monuments…

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel “the Satanic Verses” has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.