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Dubai: This winter, Emirati falconers are converging every morning at Dubai’s Al Ruwayyah desert area to flex their falcons and compete at Fazza Championship for Falconry, which is now on its 19th year and organised by the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Centre (HHC). Falconry, known locally as ‘kanas’ (Arabic word for hunting), takes its roots to over 2,000 years ago when it was practised by the Bedouins in the wider Arabian Peninsula as a tool for hunting. “In the UAE, a couple of decades ago, breeding falcons was only a hobby for locals but now, under the support of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, falconry has become a major heritage sport with lucrative prizes at stake,” Suad Ibrahim Darwish, Director of Championships at HHC, told Gulf News over the weekend. ....