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Four years ago Fatema Kharbotli barely spoke English - today she's got eight GCSEs and dreams of becoming a doctor

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Salford schoolgirl has eight GCSEs and dreams of becoming a doctor. Her incredible results include top-rank grade 9s in biology and Arabic and a pair of English GCSEs.Fatema and her family first fled the civil war in Syria in 2013, moving to neighbouring Iraq.Hoping the situation had improved, after two years away they moved back to their home city of Damascus.But the war, which began in 2011 and is thought to have cost 400,000 lives, was still raging.So Fatema's mum, a biology teacher,  and her dad, a maths teacher, made the difficult decision to seek refuge in the UK, arriving in Salford in 2016.Speaking in the playground of Buile Hill Academy in Pendleton shortly after she collected her results on Thursday morning, Fatema told how even.

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