Neda Ulaby
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Neda Ulaby is a reporter for National Public Radio. She covers arts, cultural trends and digital media for NPR. She was born in Amman, Jordan, and grew up in the Midwest. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she worked as an intern for the features desk of the Topeka Capital-Journal. She later freelanced for the Chicago Reader and the Washington City Paper. She now lives in Washington, D.C.
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She was born during Black September in Jordan.
Her childhood was spent in Lawrence, Kansas and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father, Fawwaz Ulaby is a well-known professor of electrical engineering from Damascus, Syria.
She is a graduate of the alternative Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also studied at Oxford University and holds an MA from the University of Chicago.
She was one of the first to report on the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal. Ulaby has also reported investigative pieces critical of Body Worlds and BODIES...the exhibition.
Her obituary for musician Elliott Smith[1] set a record for downloads from the NPR website.
She's included in the anthology "Bodies Out of Bounds" [2].