In his emotional address, the author said that the mission to protect free expression was never "more important" in a time of book bans and censorship and issued a call to action.
Salman Rushdie news: Some of that media outreach resulted in Matar giving a brief interview to The New York Post, in which he talked about disliking Rushdie and praised Iran’s late supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.