Fiachra Gibbons

‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa

February 11, 2019 Fiachra Gibbons

(AFP) After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant. “I don’t want to live hidden away,” he told AFP during a visit to Paris. The novelist’s life changed forever on […]

First Paris attacks feature film shown at Venice

August 31, 2018 Fiachra Gibbons

(AFP) The first feature film to touch on the Paris jihadist attacks premiered Friday at the Venice film festival just months after another was pulled over protests by survivors. “Amanda” tells the story of a young man who is left to look […]

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