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The need to bleed: Taking on extreme sports to control your pain

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By Haji Mohamed Dawjee
| firstrand.co.za
In Ethiopia, men participate in brutal stick-fighting battles and sometimes bash each other’s heads in, all to win a woman’s heart. In Morocco, runners participate in a barefoot marathon in what is known as the “toughest footrace on earth” - a six-day-long ultramarathon located in the Moroccan Sahara Desert where participants volunteer to run 251km, the distance of six regular marathons.
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The Gay Imam, The Laudium Sun And The Tyranny of Hollow People.

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By Haji Mohamed Dawjee
| Medium
Haji Mohamed Dawjee · Follow 5 min read · -- Fascists always fall. History tells us this, whispers it through the crumbling bones of empires, shouts it from the dust of statues torn down, sings it through the open mouths of those once silenced. And yet, here you all stand, grotesque in your smallness, giddy in the presence of death. You dance on the grave of a man who prayed with love in his heart, thinking yourselves righteous, your laughter rising like smoke from a burning book.
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Silence in the city: The quest for tranquillity amidst urban chaos

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By Haji Mohamed Dawjee
| firstrand.co.za
There is a cacophony in the air. It is relentless and it reigns supreme, but in the background that very cacophony is being countered by the desperate hum of something far more superior, the sound and pursuit of silence. Amidst the ceaseless buzz of traffic, the shrill calls of the stressors of everyday life, and the constant earworms of machinery and man, a growing number of cities are embracing the idea of quietude as a necessity rather than a luxury.
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