A man was convicted on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel The Satanic Verses. A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheater stage. Speaking from the stand last February, Rushdie said: “I became aware of a great quantity of blood I was lying in. In 2022, following Rushdie’s stabbing, Matar admitted to having read only “a couple pages” of the book that Iranian religious leaders denounced as blasphemous.