Karam Al-Kurd was an unlikely candidate to win the Palestinian Mathematical Olympiad.
The 17-year-old’s home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, has been shared over the past year with multiple evacuated relatives. The family often has little to eat beyond canned food. There is barely enough solar power to charge a phone, which Al-Kurd uses when he can to pursue his studies.
He could not attend training courses for the contest; with his school shut by Israel’s assault, he taught himself to solve advanced maths problems with help from his older brother and a handful of textbooks.
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