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Alumnus Osman Khan plans to use his Guggenheim Fellowship for the fine arts toward a project that retells &quot;One Thousand and One Nights&quot; through technology. The creation will also fuse these tales of the past with immigrant stories of the present. (Photo Illustration by Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor and Shari Wei/Daily Bruin)

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Alumnus to create technological retelling of Middle Eastern, South Asian stories

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For Osman Khan, flying carpets are no longer a figment of the imagination. The alumnus and current director of the University of Michigan’s Master of Fine Arts program received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of study of fine arts this year.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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Alumnus to create technological retelling of Middle Eastern, South Asian stories

By Tara Oldenburg

May 21, 2020 1:22 p.m.