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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawyers for Rushdie and the alleged attacker, Hadi Matar, delivered opening statements inside the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y. on Monday. Matar, a 27-year-old from Fairview ...

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, 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 ...

WARNING: This audio interview contains disturbing details. British Libyan writer Hisham Matar's fiction is haunted by a sense of loss and displacement, but especially by the absence of a father.