At Ashura, I contemplate grief, suffering and resistance
While some believers view Ashura as a purely cosmological event, many Shia Muslims see it as a story about good and evil
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Samir Jeraj
Samir Jeraj is a policy correspondent at the New Statesman. He also works as a special correspondent for Hyphen and is a qualified swimming coach too.
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