An oft-told story in Egypt's science community tells the tale of why Magdi Yacoub left Egypt to become a world famous surgeon in the United Kingdom.
An Egyptian Christian, he had his thesis rejected by his Muslim supervisor, allegedly because of religious discrimination.
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