Leila Fadel
Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and race.
Most recently, she was NPR's international correspondent based in Cairo and covered the wave of revolts in the Middle East and their aftermaths in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and beyond. Her stories brought us to the heart of a state-ordered massacre of pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Cairo in 2013 when police shot into crowds of people to clear them and killed between 1,000 and 2,000 people. She told us the tales of a coup in Egypt and what it is like for a country to go through a military overthrow of an elected government. She covered the fall of Mosul to ISIS in 2014 and documented the harrowing tales of the Yazidi women who were kidnapped and enslaved by the group. Her coverage also included stories of human smugglers in Egypt and the Syrian families desperate and willing to pay to risk their lives and cross a turbulent ocean for Europe.
She was awarded the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for her coverage of the 2013 coup in Egypt and the toll it took on the country and Egyptian families. In 2017 she earned a Gracie award for the story of a single mother in Tunisia whose two eldest daughters were brainwashed and joined ISIS. The mother was fighting to make sure it didn't happen to her younger girls.
Before joining NPR, she covered the Middle East for The Washington Post as the Cairo Bureau Chief. Prior to her position as Cairo Bureau Chief for the Post, she covered the Iraq war for nearly five years with Knight Ridder, McClatchy Newspapers, and later the Washington Post. Her foreign coverage of the devastating human toll of the Iraq war earned her the George. R. Polk award in 2007. In 2016 she was the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow fellow.
Leila Fadel is a Lebanese-American journalist who speaks conversational Arabic and was raised in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.
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Retail Technology consultant, Adam Dumey talks to NPR's Leila Fadel about how to use AI to shop for the holidays.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, who directs the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about where the administration is going on the economic policy front.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks with professor Beth Gazley of Indiana University about a U.S. House bill that would punish nonprofits that allegedly support terrorism.
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Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof talks about how he escaped Iran on foot after making his new political thriller, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. -
Diplomats say ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon may be imminent. President-elect Trump has a plan to make big cuts in government spending. Conservative sets sights on reshaping American culture.
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A U.N. report shows rates are rising despite efforts for more severe penalties for targeted murders of women. The majority of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner or a family member.
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Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump unveiled more picks to serve in his Cabinet. A Republican-controlled Senate will consider these nominees early next year.
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The climate conference ended with a controversial deal that calls for wealthy countries to provide their poorer neighbors with $300 billion annually to help them adapt to more extreme weather.
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President-elect Donald Trump announces more Cabinet picks. U.N. report says a woman or girl was killed every 10 minutes in 2023. Climate conference ends with a deal to help developing countries.
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The documentary 'No Other Land' by a Palestinian-Israeli collective looks at rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli occupied West Bank being forced out of their homes by the Israeli military.
