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Salman Rushdie at the Blue Sofa at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 12, 2017. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)

A Taliban soldier the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

An Apple Store at a usually bustling intersection in a popular shopping district after recent COVID-19 outbreaks on May 23, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Mourners react during a funeral for victims killed in a fire at a Coptic church in Giza on August 14, 2022. (Mahmoud Elkhwas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Salman Rushdie does a reading in New York City on April 15, 2016. (Al Pereira/Getty Images)

Evacuees await their departure at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. (Gunnery Sergeant Melissa Marnell/USMC)

Christian devotees take part in a holy procession on Good Friday in Kampala, Uganda, on April 15, 2022. (Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The China-donated Gwadar Technical and Vocational Institute in southwest Pakistan's Gwadar on October 1, 2021, just after the building's completion. (Photo by Str/Xinhua via Getty Images)

A protest in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 22, 2018, after an attack in Benue state that killed at least 18, including two Roman Catholic priests. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)