Emma Diab is a native New Yorker bent on documenting her ever-changing and multifaceted city. She received her Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU in 2012. Emma hopes to be accepted into an MFA program in Creative Writing for fall 2014 and is currently working on her applications. She spent the last year interning with the editorial team of Huffington magazine, where she contributed original writing and reporting. In her free time, Emma can be found doodling when she should be writing, making her friends uncomfortable during karaoke, and waiting impatiently for the 7 train.
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There was something about the script of Galavant that gave actress Karen David pause. "A Jennifer Lawrence Type" is what was written in black and white. She recalled feeling something akin to her heart sinking...
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If you ask actress Alicia Minshew what she's most excited about, her knee-jerk reaction is to inform you that her four-and-a-half-year-old daughter is starting kindergarten. But her excitement over new beginnings does...
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Garrett Bradley's first narrative feature film, Below Dreams, is much like a dream itself, the kind forgotten upon waking but slowly remembered throughout the day in its ability to stealthily seep to the forefront of...
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Director Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot took the Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival last week -- a prize well-deserved not only for spotlighting the story of Matthew VanDyke, a man...
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To Alice Herz-Sommer, "music [was] God." It was the religion by which she lived out her days. When times were dark, she preached the beauty of life without saying a word, sitting at her piano at the end of the world....
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On February 11, 2011, the world watched in anticipation the aerial views of tiny bobbing heads and flags snapping in the wind; Egypt was poised to add a very important chapter to its beleaguered political history. In a...
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Tragedies, accidents — you see or read about them every day. A grainy photo pulled from a social media site goes up on a local news channel. The site of a wreck might be shown, with a close-up of taut police tape...
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Are you a fan of The Blacklist, Homeland, Girls or American Horror Story? Did you happen to spend over three months binge-watching all 14 seasons of Law and Order: SVU in a darkened basement covered in a light dusting...
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One could assume that nobody in a windowless office was ever caught basking in the fluorescent light, breathing in the recycled air, and asking “is this what freedom feels like?” But can an assumption...
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You come face to face with the man who tried to kill you. You’re not in a courtroom. You’re not visiting a prison. You’re not having a nightmare.
