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Former Jersey City school board President Mussab Ali has been awarded $90,000 for his graduate studies by a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. Ali was one of 30 selected out of 1,800 applicants for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program, established in 1997, honors the contributions of continuing generations of immigrants in the United States. “I think it is just a celebration of what Jersey City has given me,” said Ali, who was born in Pakistan. “My family, like so many othe…