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Mariam Brahim

b. 1956

Chadian medical doctor

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About Mariam Brahim

Born 1956. Mariam Brahim is a Chadian physician.

Mariam Brahim is a Chadian physician. She worked as a professor and pediatrician at the University of N'Djamena. Educated in the Soviet Union, she graduated from a medical school in Leningrad in 1983 and earned her doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1997. Along with physician Grace Kodindo, Brahim coordinated and supervised public health programs for children's health in Chad from 1997 to 2006.

Early life and education Mariam Brahim was born on 16 June 1956 in Abéché, Chad to Fatimé Fadoul and Brahim Djadarab. She attended primary school in Abéché alongside her four siblings and finished her secondary education at Lycée Franco-Arabe. She learned English and travelled to N'Djamena for final classes in preparation for her baccalaureate examinations. Despite having French teachers that occasionally mocked her and claimed that "women could not master geometry", she passed the examination in 1976.

Brahim was interviewed by anthropologist Marie-José Tubiana. She told Tubiana that her work kept her so busy that she only discovered she was a delegate to a constitutional convention in the early 1990s through a radio announcement.

Personal life Brahim married in 1983 in Moscow. She had five children, three of whom were born in the Soviet Union and the other two in the Republic of Congo and Chad.

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Who is Mariam Brahim?

Chadian medical doctor

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Mariam Brahim was born on 16 June 1956 in Abéché.

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Mariam Brahim is a physician.

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Mariam Brahim is Chadian.

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· Wikipedia: Mariam Brahim

· Wikidata: Q56821964

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