Neda Ulaby
Neda Ulaby reports on arts, entertainment, and cultural trends for NPR's Arts Desk.
Scouring the various and often overlapping worlds of art, music, television, film, new media and literature, Ulaby's stories reflect political and economic realities, cultural issues, obsessions and transitions.
A twenty-year veteran of NPR, Ulaby started as a temporary production assistant on the cultural desk, opening mail, booking interviews and cutting tape with razor blades. Over the years, she's also worked as a producer and editor and won a Gracie award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for hosting a podcast of NPR's best arts stories.
Ulaby also hosted the Emmy-award winning public television series Arab American Stories in 2012 and earned a 2019 Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She's also been chosen for fellowships at the Getty Arts Journalism Program at USC Annenberg and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism.
Before coming to NPR, Ulaby worked as managing editor of Chicago's Windy City Times and co-hosted a local radio program, What's Coming Out at the Movies. A former doctoral student in English literature, Ulaby has contributed to academic journals and taught classes in the humanities at the University of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University and at high schools serving at-risk students.
Ulaby worked as an intern for the features desk of the Topeka Capital-Journal after graduating from Bryn Mawr College. But her first appearance in print was when she was only four days old. She was pictured on the front page of the New York Times, as a refugee, when she and her parents were evacuated from Amman, Jordan, during the conflict known as Black September.
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A new Apple+ TV show that is premiering Friday seems to reflect a trend of non-Jewish actors playing emphatically Jewish characters, which recently caught the ire of of comedian Sarah Silverman.
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Gertrude Abercrombie was a bohemian midcentury painter whose surrealist paintings, newly coveted by collectors, are now touring museums as part of the show "Supernatural America." -
Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of Rust near Sante Fe, killing the film's director of photography and injuring the director, according to the sheriff's office of Santa Fe County, N.M.
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Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest." -
One of the world's most famous hospitals also houses a respected literary magazine focused on health and healing. The Bellevue Literary Review has seen an uptick of submissions during the pandemic. -
Abdulrazak Gurnah, who is from Zanzibar, has written 10 novels, including 1994's Paradise, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. U.S. poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Past laureates have included the authors Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway. The American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Nearly 40 years after its farewell single, the Swedish pop group ABBA has announced its return with a new album this fall, and a high-tech digital concert next spring.
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After much speculation, Sony Pictures Television has named two people to fill the Jeopardy! hosting role left open after the death of longtime host Alex Trebek.
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In a surprise move, Jeopardy! has selected actor Mayim Bialik and current executive producer Mike Richards as permanent new hosts of the game show. -
Musicians in the U.S. and Japan are collaborating in honor of the first Olympic karate competition: Composers tracked the brainwaves of people performing karate, and turned that data into music.
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A league of unfortunate writers had their books come out in the height of the coronavirus crisis — there are even several online support groups for authors who published mid-pandemic.
