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AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories From India By Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai, Nikita Lawani, Vikram Seth, et. al. Anchor Books...
...Holocaust, reveals the darkest entrails of religious hypocrisy. While roaming the underground tunnels of Amsterdam, Maher interviews Muslim British rapper Aki Nawaz of the band Propagandhi, whose controversial lyrics glorify terrorism. Incidentally, Nawaz, whose livelihood literally depends on freedom of speech, has no qualms about the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie for his book “The Satanic Verses,” which incensed Muslim leaders in the late...
...drove out of Baghdad, Yuri's camera click-clicked cautiously past rusting scrap yards in the lingering insurgent strongholds of Salman Pak, al-Hafriya and Hay al-Wahida--impoverished slums of outer Baghdad where desperation and frustration have created fertile breeding grounds for insurgents. Every so often, our driver, Sami, would yell, "Checkpoint!" Our cameras would fall to the floor, and we would try to appear innocent as weary-looking soldiers scrutinized our authorization documents in a country still suspicious of journalists' motives. There was a similar procedure for my headscarf and abaya, conservative Islamic women's attire, which...
Satanic Verses Victim The Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was shot in the back at his home outside Oslo by an unidentified gunman. William Nygaard, 50, was expected to recover fully from the attack. He is the third person to be injured or killed as the result of an association with the book...
...opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera said Sunday. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October...