Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

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 ...

Matar’s new novel, the ambitious and poignant “My Friends,” is his first book about Libyans without the figure of the persecuted father. The protagonist, Khaled, is a young man who leaves ...

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.

Matar was 13 when he saw the news on TV and he says the violence and chaos of that day marked him both as a young man, and as a writer. In My Friends he propels his three central characters into ...

The man who left Salman Rushdie partially blind after stabbing him at a lecture in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, May 16, The Associated Press reports.. Hadi Matar, 27, was ...

Twenty seven year old Matar was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, the maximum permitted. He is also facing federal charges. He is accused of attempting to provide material support to Hizballah, a ...

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault ...

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.