Tag: Verses
The last verses of the poet from Gaza
A portrait of Refaat Alareer displayed during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Cologne, Germany, on December 9. YING TANG/NURPHOTO/AFP His poem has been translated into dozens of languages, from Japanese to…
Christmas Poems: The most beautiful verses for Christmas
Christmas Sayings The most beautiful verses and rhymes for Christmas © Nelosa / Shutterstock Are you looking for sayings for Christmas? Here we have put together the most beautiful verses…
Passengers on an Aix-Marseille bus forced to listen to verses from the Koran
A bus driver is accused of playing religious songs for the duration of a trip from Aix to Marseille, reports France Bleu Provence. By ThePoint.fr Every day, 10,000 to 15,000…
A bus driver imposes verses from the Koran on his passengers between Aix and Marseille
The driver broadcast verses from the Koran during a bus trip between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, Sunday November 20. An investigation has been opened. A bus driver imposed a psalmody (the…
“Chronicle L’air du temps” – Salman Rushdie: blood verses
Gilles Martin-Chauffier’s weekly column: on behalf of Rushdie, let’s reread his joyous novel which unleashed fundamentalist fury! “This summer, I will re-read Proust. Among the ridiculous things about the leaders…
“‘The Satanic Verses’ are in no way blasphemous”
Reserved for subscribers MAINTENANCE. How was the doctrine of blasphemy developed within Islam and how has it endured? Tunisian academic Hamadi Redissi traces its history. In 1988 in Bradford, United…
“‘The Satanic Verses’, which have caused a lot of ink to flow and a lot of blood, are not strictly speaking a novel on Muhammad, nor on Islam”
HASs I write these lines, Salman Rushdie is fighting against the death that has stalked him for thirty-three years already, for having written a novel, The Satanic Verses, accused of…
Attack against Salman Rushdie: sales of his book The Satanic Verses soar
This Saturday afternoon, three editions of the book topped Amazon’s book sales barometer. The attack on Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in the United States, renewed public interest in the…
Sales of ‘Satanic Verses’ up after Salman attack
Rushdie NEW YORK (awp/afp) – The attack on Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in the United States, has renewed public interest in the author’s work, in particular his 1988 novel…
Assault on Salman Rushdie: when a French actress recited a passage from the Satanic Verses…
A violent and heinous aggression. Friday August 12, Salman Rushdie was stabbed several times by Hadi Matar, a young man of only 24 years old, living in New Jersey. He…
These “Satanic Verses” That Won Salman Rushdie a Fatwa
Reserved for subscribers Published in September 1988, this satirical novel resulted in a murderous fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini against the British writer and his publishers. By Catherine Golliau Published on…