Feb 25, 2002 | Yale University
Step Across This Line
Speaker
Salman Rushdie
Date
Feb 25, 2002
End Date
Feb 26, 2002
SALMAN RUSHDIE was born in Bombay, India, and is considered one of the most distinguished living writers of English. He is known as a spokesman for artistic freedoms against religious absolutism; he drew world attention after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses resulted in a fatwa, or death order, being placed against him by Muslims around the world who opposed the book