The trial of a man accused of attacking author Salman Rushdie will begin in a New York court this morning. Hadi Matar allegedly sprinted on stage at an event in upstate New York in August 2022 and stabbed the acclaimed British-American writer at least 10 times.

In his own words, author Salman Rushdie describes the moments when a stranger rushed at him on stage in western New York and began attacking him.

The 77-year-old author was blinded in one eye in the attack and spent months recovering, a process he detailed in a memoir released last year.