Dubbed ‘zero schoolgirl,Mariam Malak is drawing national attention after appeals to investigate forgery allegations were repeatedly dodged by authoritiesSoftly spoken schoolgirl Mariam Malak has become an unlikely symbol of the fight against corruption in Egypt after scoring the sum total of zero in her final exams.
The 19-year-old top student, a teacher’s daughter in a small village in the destitute southern province of Minya, or dreams of fitting a doctor like her two brothers.
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Source: theguardian.com