Alan Yentob, the long-serving BBC arts broadcaster and documentary-maker, has died aged 78. Yentob profiled and interviewed a ...

Yentob was appointed creative director, to oversee the BBC’s creative strategy, in 2004 and he also served as chairman of the ...

The attack on Israeli Embassy staff members was not about a 'free Palestine.' It was about targeting a young couple because ...

Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie canceled his planned speech at a California college after students protested his appearance.

Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

It includes artists who seem to have gone through a religious phase, one that left a mark on them, such as Toni Morrison, ...

In August 2022, Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed at a lecture event in New York in his neck, chest, eye, and other areas. He ...

By Nehru OdehHadi Matar, the 27-year-old American of Lebanese descent who brutally attacked renowned author Salman Rushdie at a cultural event in New York in 2022, has been handed a 25-year prison ...

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Rushdie's assailant has been handed a 25-year jail term. A review of his book inspired by the horrific stabbing attack of ...