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The co-founder of The Doc Society and the architect behind numerous films by visual artists was diagnosed with a brain tumour in July
URL copied to clipboard On a patch of higher ground in Burgess Park, south London, Abdul points at the building he used to work in. Owned by the State of Qatar, the Shard thrusts greedily upward, master of all it surveys. “I was working as a cleaner, in different places,” Abdul says. “In like, government offices. I was [also] working in the Shard, near London Bridge. It was from midnight till seven in the morning. At night, there was no one inside really. Just some cleaners. Most of the staff, they come in the morning, when we get off.” Abdul was born in Mogadishu, the capital of ...