Sam Mahmoudi well as writing the song “I Confess…” and possessing a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Mahmoudi has told his interrogators he acquired the controversial novel because he planned to publish a special article on the anniversary of the death sentence issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Rushdie. Mahmoudi was arrested for more than a month during the protests that followed the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and was released on a $300,000 Dollars. Sam Mahmoudi Sam Mahmoudi Sarabi is the editor for the Idea & history and book services of Shargh Newspaper who has been summoned to the Intelligence
Haroun and the Sea of Stories of the story deal with the problems of censorship: an issue particularly pertinent to Rushdie because of the fatwa against him backed by Ayatollah Khomeini. The book is highly allusive and puns in multiple languages. Many of the major character's names allude to some aspect of speech or silence. It was made into an audiobook read by Rushdie himself. At the beginning of the story, protagonist Haroun Khalifa lives with his father Rashid, a famous storyteller, and his mother Soraya, until the latter is seduced by their neighbor 'Mr. Sengupta' to leave home. Thereafter Rashid is hired to speak on