Hadi Matar, 24, kept to himself and was changed by a 2018 trip to the Middle East. ... People who witnessed the stabbing at Chautauqua described the assailant’s raw strength.

On Jan. 17, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services informed Matar Matar and his wife, Dr. Amal Alyusuf, that the agency had “rendered a favorable decision” in their appeal for sanctuary ...

Hadi Matar was arrested after the attack on Salman Rushdie on Friday. The mother of the New Jersey man, who stabbed author Salman Rushdie at a literary event, has said that the 24-year-old ...

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship.