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Ahmed Naji Thrives at BMI as Distinguished Asylum Fellow

The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, in concert with PEN America, offers a creative home in Las Vegas for the Egyptian novelist and journalist through its City of Asylum Program.

Egyptian journalist and novelist Ahmed Naji is a City of Asylum fellow at UNLV's Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. The program offers creative refuge in Las Vegas to writers persecuted in their home countries.

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