21. Salman Rushdie - Authors - Random House salman rushdie is the author of 8 previous novels — Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), Shame, http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26491

22. Reason Magazine - The Iconoclast salman rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America s place in the world salman rushdie is a political novelist whose political and novelistic http://www.reason.com/news/show/33120.html

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23. Rushdie, Salman | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books salman rushdie (1947). What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Birthplace Bombay, India Education http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-122,00.html

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24. The Right Time For An Islamic Reformation By salman rushdie. Sunday, August 7, 2005; Page B07. When Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, admitted that our own children had http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501483.

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'opinion/columns/opinion/opeds_misc'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Columns Print This Article ... E-Mail This Article RSS News Feeds Top News What is RSS? All RSS Feeds today in slate ... Zenware: How To Build a Distraction-Free Desktop The Right Time for An Islamic Reformation By Salman Rushdie Sunday, August 7, 2005; Page B07 When Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, admitted that "our own children" had perpetrated the July 7 London bombings, it was the first time in my memory that a British Muslim had accepted his community's responsibility for outrages committed by its members. Instead of blaming U.S. foreign policy or "Islamophobia," Sacranie described the bombings as a "profound challenge" for the Muslim community. However, this is the same Sacranie who, in 1989, said that "Death is perhaps too easy" for the author of "The Satanic Verses." Tony Blair's decision to knight him and treat him as the acceptable face of "moderate," "traditional" Islam is either a sign of his government's penchant for religious appeasement or a demonstration of how limited Blair's options really are. Sacranie is a strong advocate of Blair's much-criticized new religious-hatred bill, which will make it harder to criticize religion, and he actually expects the new law to outlaw references to Islamic terrorism. He said as recently as Jan. 13, "There is no such thing as an Islamic terrorist. This is deeply offensive. Saying Muslims are terrorists would be covered [i.e., banned] by this provision." Two weeks later his organization boycotted a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in London commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz 60 years ago. If Sir Iqbal Sacranie is the best Blair can offer in the way of a good Muslim, we have a problem.

25. Bill Moyers On Faith & Reason . Portraits . Salman Rushdie | PBS Biography, resources and online only audio and video of author salman rushdie. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/portraits_rushdie.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Martin Amis Margaret Atwood Mary Gordon Colin McGinn David Grossman Anne Provoost Richard Rodriguez Salman Rushdie Will Power Sir John Houghton Jeanette Winterson Salman Rushdie reads from SHALIMAR THE CLOWN faith and politics. Plus, watch the interview online. "I do think that (9/11) was a hinge moment. And if only because it showed us that we're now inescapably involved with each other. That we can't disengage." Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is a celebrated novelist, short-story writer, and essayist who gained international notoriety in 1989 when Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini demanded his execution for his portrayal of the prophet Mohammed in the novel THE SATANIC VERSES. Born into a Muslim family in Bombay, India, in 1947, Rushdie began his writing career in the mid-1970s, after settling in England. His second novel, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, an allegory of post-independence Indian society, catapulted him to fame in 1981 and was awarded Britain's Booker Prize for best novel. In 1993, the novel was named the "Booker of Bookers," as the best novel to receive the award in the prize's 25-year history. Rushdie followed MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN with a string of seven highly acclaimed novels, among them THE SATANIC VERSES (1988), THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH (1995) and THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET (1999). Most of the author's novels are set on the Indian subcontinent and focus on actual political and historical events interwoven with myth, fantasy, and folklore - a technique that has drawn comparisons to the "magic realism" of South American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

26. Emory University News Release - RushdieProfessorship salman rushdie, one of the world s most celebrated contemporary authors, will join the faculty of Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence and http://news.emory.edu/Releases/RushdieProfessorship1160159900.html

Release date: Oct. 6, 2006 Contact: Elaine Justice at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu Salman Rushdie to Teach and Place His Archive at Emory University Salman Rushdie (left) shows President James Wagner some of his manuscripts that are placed at Emory's Woodruff Library. Salman Rushdie, one of the world's most celebrated contemporary authors, will join the faculty of Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence and place his archive at Emory's Woodruff Library. "Salman Rushdie is not only one of the foremost writers of our generation, he is also a courageous champion of human rights and freedom," says Emory President James Wagner. Rushdie is a master of world literature, spanning India, Europe and North and South America. His pioneering style has been compared to Jorge Louis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Vladimir Nabokov. His novel, "Midnight's Children" (1980), won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, and was selected in 1993 as the best novel in 25 years of the Booker Prize. Subsequent novels, including "The Satanic Verses" (1988), "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (1999) and most recently, "Shalimar the Clown" (2005), involve a panoramic scope weaving mythology, pop culture, politics and religions from around the world to epic effect. Rushdie is also one of the most important voices of our time for human rights. Though for nearly 10 years, following publication of "The Satanic Verses," he was the subject of terrorist threats from Islamicists who found the novel blasphemous, Rushdie continued to champion oppressed artists and peoples around the world. "How we fight it is going to be the great civilizational test of our time," Rushdie has said about terrorism. Principles of human rights and religious and artistic freedom, he has emphasized, are crucial in this world struggle.

27. Ayatollah Revives The Death Fatwa On Salman Rushdie - Britain - Times Online A FATWA against the author salman rushdie was reaffirmed by Iran’s spiritual leader last night in a message to Muslim pilgrims. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1448279,00.html

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28. Cox & Forkum: Salman Rushdie Iran said on Sunday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer salman rushdie issued by its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini still http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/001138.html

Main June 24, 2007 Salman Rushdie From AFP: Iran says Rushdie death fatwa still stands Iran said on Sunday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie issued by its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini still stands after his knighthood by the queen. "The stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran with regard to this issue has not changed from what was put forward by the Imam Khomeini," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters. The Indian-born Rushdie, 59, was forced to go into hiding for a decade after Khomeini issued the 1989 death sentence over his book "The Satanic Verses," saying it insulted Islam. Khomeini's successor as supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in January 2005 he still believed the British novelist was an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam. To see more of John's caricatures, see his new blog John Cox Art Posted by Forkum at June 24, 2007 01:56 PM var site="sm8coxandforkum"

29. Epoch Times | Indian Tycoon Hosts Salman Rushdie, Angers Muslims A powerful Islamic group in India is asking Muslims to boycott products of a top Indian business group if its owner does not apologise for hosting author http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-1-17/64223.html

Home Subscribe Print Edition Advertise ... Sports Features Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party Chinese New Year Spectacular Tour 2008 U.S. Presidential Election CCP Student Spies ... Previous Features Advertisement Home World South Asia Printer version ... Give feedback Indian Tycoon Hosts Salman Rushdie, Angers Muslims Reuters Jan 17, 2008 Protesters chant slogans condemning the Indian-born author Salman Rushdie.(Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) MUMBAI—A powerful Islamic group in India is asking Muslims to boycott products of a top Indian business group if its owner does not apologise for hosting author Salman Rushdie on a brief holiday this week. But the guest of Godrejs has angered the All-India Ulema Council–a national grouping of Muslim organisations–which says the family had not cared for the sentiments of Muslims whom Rushdie had offended with his writings. The Godrejs were not available for comment. Godrej Industries Ltd, a Godrej group company with interests in chemical, vegetable oil and real estate, posted a net profit of $15.94 million in 2006-07. This forced the writer to live in hiding for nine years.

30. The Richmond Review, Short Story/Essay/Poetry, Commencement Address At Bard Coll This electronic version of salman rushdie s Commencement Address at Bard College, 1996, salman rushdie is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/rushdi01.html

library WHAT'S NEW LIBRARY FEATURES REVIEWS ... library : Commencement address at Bard College by Salman Rushdie Commencement Address at Bard College An essay by Salman Rushdie Related Links Salman Rushdie resources Merchandise Links Books by Salman Rushdie Text of Commencement Address at Bard College, May 25th, 1996 by Salman Rushdie. It is men and women who have made the world, and they have made it in spite of their gods. The message of the myths is not the one the gods would have us learn - that we should behave ourselves and know our place - but its exact opposite. It is that we must be guided by our natures. Our worst natures can, it's true, be arrogant, venal, corrupt, or selfish; but in our best selves, we - that is, you - can and will be joyous, adventurous, cheeky, creative, inquisitive, demanding, competitive, loving, and defiant. Do not bow your heads. Do not know your place. Defy the gods. You will be astonished how many of them turn out to have feet of clay. Be guided, if possible, by your better natures. Great good luck and many congratulations to you all. This text may not be archived or distributed further without the author's express permission. Please read the

31. Cornell Chronicle: Salman Rushdie Coverage British novelist salman rushdie visited campus Oct. 18 to read from his work and reflect on his life. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/Rushdie.cover.gl.html

Search Cornell Search Chronicle Online Oct. 23, 2007 Bombs, bands and birds recalled as novelist Salman Rushdie trips down memory lane By George Lowery Novelist Salman Rushdie knew how to win over the standing-room-only audience in Uris Auditorium Oct. 18: By paying tribute to Cornell writers. First he described himself as a "Pynchonista," having dined (once) with Thomas Pynchon '59. Then he said he reveres Vladimir Nabokov "and one can only hope to be worthy of his shade." Lindsay France/University Photography Salman Rushdie chats with English chair Molly Hite before taking the Uris Auditorium stage. Asked about the fatwa that called for his death on the grounds of blasphemy against Islam in his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie deadpanned, "It was not good. Is that enough? I wouldn't recommend it. If it's at all possible to avoid being sentenced to death by the insane dictator of a country far away, you should try." Conceding his years under threat were "horrible" and "trying," Rushdie said, "The thing that I have taken away from the experience is in fact not to do with how horrible it was. It's in fact to do with the other side of the coin. In those years I found myself at the center of an extraordinary international movement of ordinary people, acting on principles ... who decided as an act of collective will that they didn't feel like being dictated to by this crazy bastard foreigner. It was those people who defended 'The Satanic Verses,' not the great and good." A Berkeley, Calif., bookstore was pipe bombed, and Rushdie escaped a 1989 assassination attempt when a bomb exploded prematurely in London. "I was shown something about the worst things that human nature is capable of, but also the best, and I choose to remember that."

32. Quillblog » Salman Rushdie Steps Up To The Plate For New Media “Is that salman rushdie?” someone said, eyeing the back of the man’s bald head. “Yes,” came the answer. And it was! Here’s what rushdie had to say about the http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/25/salman-rushdie-steps-up-t

Quillblog Book reviews Kids' books Author profiles ... Directories Previous: Event Photos: Lawyers Gone Bad , M.G. Vassanji, Mary Novik, and more Next: Disgruntled writer offers literary agents a raise Salman Rushdie steps up to the plate for new media Readers of this space will know that a favourite hobby of book reviewers is publicly agonizing over the apparent decline of their craft. One of the most keen proponents of this view is former Los Angeles Times editor Steve Wasserman , who presided over a panel this weekend in New York that shared his dour perspective, reports The New York Observer . The event was reportedly as dreary as it sounds – that is, until a surprise appearance by a bona fide literary star. Then, just as the post-discussion wine and cheese party was getting underway, a heavy-set, distinguished-looking man walked in the front door of the bookstore and strode towards the stage. “Is that Salman Rushdie?” someone said, eyeing the back of the man’s bald head. “Yes,” came the answer. And it was! Here’s what Rushdie had to say about the newspaper review, more or less echoing Wasserman’s opinion that shorter reviews are proportional to their declining quality:

33. Salman Rushdie Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about salman rushdie s life and East, West, Fury, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Midnight s Children, Shame, Step Across This Line Collected http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/salman.rushdie.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Salman Rushdie - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Salman Rushdie Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Portrait: Salman Rushdie, by Mokhtar Paki. Salman Rushdie (1947 - ) Category: English Literature Born: 1947 Bombay (now Mumbai), India Related authors: Martin Amis Naguib Mahfouz PEN list all writers Salman Rushdie - LIFE STORIES Nehru, Rushdie, Midnight's Children On this day in 1947, India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain. Salman Rushdie got the title for his 1981 Booker Prize-winner, Midnight's Children from the speech Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave in the first minutes of the new day: "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. . . ." Of Fame and Fatwas On this day in 1911 the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was born. Despite a death sentence pronounced against him by Omar Abdul-Rahman, and nearly carried out in 1994, Mahfouz chronicled and questioned Egyptian society throughout his long life. He was given a state funeral when he died in 2006 - at which time Abdul-Rahman was a decade into his life sentence. top of page SELECTED WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR Conversations With Salman Rushdie by Salman Rushdie, Juan Williams, Michael R. Reder (Editor)

34. Salman Rushdie: Arms And The Men And Hobbits | Features | Guardian Unlimited Fil From Middle Earth to New York and Washington, the morality of war is at issue, says salman rushdie Saturday January 4, 2003 http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,868339,00.html

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35. Rushdie's Satanic Verses the world, but for a meaningful look at the richness of salman rushdie s . controversy surrounding salman rushdie s Satanic Verses is that it makes http://www.indiastar.com/jsamuel.html

IndiaStarA Literary-Art Magazine Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses by Julian Samuel ONE CAN ALWAYS overlook the political context of a book's emergence into the world, but for a meaningful look at the richness of Salman Rushdie's work it would be unwise. There is a hidden agenda at work; there always is. With The Satanic Verses in particular, we must look at the surrounding constructions of British pluralism-who it includes and who it rejects. There are other writers (mentioned below) in the post-colonial world who have not come under the same light-not because they are any less good than Rushdie, but because their politics and mode of addressing issues have set them apart, perhaps excluded them, from the kind movements of stylistic beauty that Rushdie has skillfully exploited in his rise into the Fabian soft folds of British literary society. Historical empires which claim to operate within democratic tenets must prove their sense of pluralism, their healthy tolerance of the Other's sense of political imperatives (the balances and imbalances needed ostensibly to compensate for British rule in India?).

36. Rushdie Knighthood 'justifies Suicide Attacks' | Special Reports | Guardian Unli Pakistani MPs pass resolution condemning author salman rushdie s Queen s The award of a knighthood to the author salman rushdie justifies suicide http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2105748,00.html

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37. HALLOWEEN CELEBS UNMASKED Newly single salman rushdie sashayed into Chris and Michelle Barish s bash at their Lafayette Street duplex as evil Darth Vader. The once Fatwahed author http://www.nypost.com/seven/11022007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

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38. David Cronenberg Interviews Salman Rushdie God, I thought. What pennypinching. You really are from Scotland Yard. But then I thought, why should the Yard pay for my rendezvous with salman rushdie? http://www.davidcronenberg.de/cr_rushd.htm

SHIFT Magazine Inc. The phone call from Scotland Yard came late Friday afternoon. At first I thought it was room service, and so I didn't catch the name or the title-Inspector? Sergeant? MacLeish? "A man will meet you in the lobby of your hotel on Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. His name will be Sinclair. You will take a cab together. You will pay for the cab." God, I thought. What penny-pinching. You really are from Scotland Yard. But then I thought, why should the Yard pay for my rendezvous with Salman Rushdie? Sinclair turns out to be an affable, good-looking young man in metal-rimmed shades and a suit who professes his affection for classless Canada. I ask him if he normally works the Rushdie detail. "I'm usually assigned to a Member of Parliament," he says, his North-Country accent tight and amused. "But it's not as exciting as this great cloak and dagger stuff." The London cab lurches through heavy traffic. No one seems to be following us. "I don't like policemen listening to my conversations," says Rushdie. He gets up and closes the door. The two men from Scotland Yard who had brought Rushdie to meet me now have the bedroom of the Claridge's Hotel suite to themselves, and Rushdie and I have the sitting-room. Sinclair has left after a disappointingly perfunctory search of my equipment bag. Rushdie continues. "I say to policemen, `There can't be too many left-wing writers who know as much about Police Special Branch procedure as I do.' And they laugh and say, `There aren't that many right-wing writers who know that much either.' Maybe it's time for me to do my Le Carre."

39. Midnight's Children rushdie s migrant identity. (criticized by Aijaz Ahmad s In Theory and Revathi Krishnaswamy in Ariel 1995 26.1). rushdie, salman. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postcolonism/Mid_Children.htm

Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children personal history and national history Saleem's history connections between the personal and the public Saleem's view the critics' view non-causal connection the artist figures aiming at all-inclusiveness ... Women and the people The characters' cultural identities Issues for discussion: Hope for India's future? Rushdie's migrant identity back to Rushdie mainpage postcolonialism Midnight's Children personal history and national history Personal: The novel starts in 1915, 32 years before the birth of Saleem, and ends when he is about to be 31. It spans about 63, years, with Saleem's and India's birth as the center. National: from the end of WWI to the indepence of India (Aug. 15, 1947) to the lifting of Emergency Rule (1977) "Allegorica"l Aspects heritage multiple heritage Saleem has many fathers (Methwold, Wee Willie Winkie, Ahmed Sinai) and mothers (Amina, Mary, and all the nannies) The influence of the colonizers: Methwold (the actual father of Saleem); E. Burns nation a new myth p. 129; India a collective fiction; mix identity p. 135 (Time line: family history and national historyparallels and connections ) India's history family history the world war ended Aziz + Naseem -massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar.

40. No More Fanaticism As Usual - New York Times Ayaan Hirsi Ali was accused of being the Dutch salman rushdie, Mr. Aghajari of being the Iranian version, Isioma Daniel of being the Nigerian http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE2D61638F934A15752C1A9649C8B6

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