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Jan 30, 20192:08Government & Organizations

The hidden story of the 1989 fatwa issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie, focussing not on the writer’s ordeal but on the forces which led to the fatwa and the consequences of it for all of us. The s...

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