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Examining Salman Rushdie's lifelong fight for free speech

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Three days after being repeatedly stabbed onstage as he was preparing to give a lecture, author Salman Rushdie is recovering while the man accused of attacking him has been charged with attempted murder. Ayad Akhtar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist and president of PEN America, joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss Rushdie's life, work and the wider impact of the attack against him.

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U.S. & Canada
Tags
freedom of speech, freeedom of expression, iran
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