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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In Lebanon, victims were buried after a cyberattack Tuesday that detonated thousands of hand-held pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah. The next day there was a second wave of attacks.
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Is the U.S. banning TikTok essentially censorship? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with an attorney whose firm filed a petition on behalf of a TikTok creator seeking to stop the U.S. ban.
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For a second day devices were turned into bombs in Lebanon. The explosions are the latest in a series of attacks attributed to Israel. The Teamsters are not endorsing a 2024 presidential candidate.
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There were thousands of causalities when pagers carried by members of Hezbollah exploded in crowded stores and streets. The method of attack was highly unusual -- if not unprecedented.
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Electronic pagers belonging to members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah were attacked. The Federal Reserve is on the verge of cutting interest rates. Drug overdose deaths dropped in the U.S.
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Another former officer, who pleaded guilty to federal charges, testified that the assault occurred after a traffic stop and afterwards the officers lied about using excessive force.
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An attack on pagers used by members of Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah led to thousands of casualties. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Beirut-based journalist Kim Ghattas about the unusual attack.
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Residents of India-administered Kashmir begin voting in the first regional elections in a decade. It comes years after India's government stripped away the territory’s statehood.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to author Richard Flanagan about what it means to live amid the horror of warfare.
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In the new movie "My Old Ass," an 18-year-old girl is visited by her 39-year-old self, who provides guidance and an unexplained warning.