A New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.

A New Jersey man who repeatedly stabbed author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.

Lawyers are delivering their closing arguments in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a western New York lecture stage.

Lawyers are set to deliver their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in a knife attack that left the author blind in one eye and with other serious injuries.

The man, Hadi Matar, faces up to 32 years in prison. Prosecutors said he rushed onstage at an arts conference and stabbed the famed author about 15 times.

Hadi Matar, the man who attacked Salman Rushdie in 2022, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder and assault.

Salman Rushdie spoke calmly and with occasional dry humor as he testified on Tuesday against the man accused of trying to murder him, the first time the two have been in the same place since the 2022 knife attack on the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute.

The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense.

Henry Reese — the founder of the City Of Asylum Pittsburgh — testified about how he was on stage speaking with Rushdie and was also injured in the melee. Matar was charged with assault for allegedly slashing Reese in the forehead, leaving him with a gash.