Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

6.6 55 mins

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.

Keywords

freedom of speech biography religious fundamentalism 1980s portrait of an artist fatwa controversial artist terrorist threat celebrity interview islamism religious belief