things become nebulous, even unreliable. "Friendship is promiscuous," says novelist Hisham Matar. You can have many friends at once – and you enter into friendships without knowing how long they ...

Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February over the horrific attack that saw him try to carry out a decades-old fatwa by ambushing the 77-year-old novelist as he ...

A New York jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Hadi Matar, 27, of second-degree attempted murder in February. British-American author Rushdie was blinded in one eye in the ...

Hadi Matar, the man who severely injured novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 stabbing attack, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison — the maximum for attempted murder. Matar, 27, was found ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022. Matar, 27, was found guilty of ...

Hadi Matar, 27, also received a concurrent sentence of seven years plus three years of post-release supervision for a second-degree assault charge. Matar has been remanded to the New York State ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A New York jury has convicted Hadi Matar of ...

The trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, is scheduled to begin on September 9, according to the prosecutor’s office and Matar’s defense attorney. In August ...

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship. By Joumana ...

Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted of attempted murder back in February, and the 25-year term handed down is the maximum penalty. Matar will also concurrently serve a seven-year sentence for his ...

A rash decision to attend an anti-Qaddafi protest in London reverberates in Hisham Matar’s poignant and quietly suspenseful third novel. By Peter C. Baker Peter C. Baker’s novel “Planes ...