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Novelist Salman Rushdie recounts the fatwa issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 for his authorship of the novel, The Satanic Verses, which was deemed “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.” Mr. Rushdie recalls the nine years he lived under the fatwa and his life in hiding. Salman Rushdie speaks with Robert Siegel host of NPR's All Things Considered at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium.