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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Gaza ceasefire under strain amid threats from Israel and Trump, shutdown standoff drags on as public begins to feel the effects, Supreme Court to hear case that could gut Voting Rights Act.
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Gaza ceasefire under strain amid threats from Israel and Trump, shutdown standoff drags on as public begins to feel the effects, Supreme Court to hear case that could gut Voting Rights Act.
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D'Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the neo soul sub genre, died Tuesday at age 51. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Faith Pennick, who wrote a book about his album "Voodoo."
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Just six days in, the Gaza ceasefire faces some strain as Israel demands Hamas hand over more bodies of hostages and Trump warns of violence if Hamas doesn't disarm itself.
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Israel cut the number of Gaza aid delivery trucks, citing an alleged Hamas ceasefire breach. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Jonathan Fowler of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
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Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks describe their collaboration to simultaneously craft the new novel and upcoming film Remain as a unique one that's unlikely to be replicated. -
With the skies quiet after two years of war, two women in Gaza talk about grief, survival and what hope looks like in this fragile moment.
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Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of the ceasefire deal, but what challenges could they encounter next? NPR's Leila Fadel talks to former peace talks negotiator Diana Buttu.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Machado's work promoting democratic rights is "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.
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Israeli forces in Gaza begin pulling back to agreed positions after ceasefire deal, Trump planning to travel to Middle East ahead of hostage exchange, New York's AG indicted on federal charges.
