Leila Fadel

Leila Fadel is a Lebanese-American journalist and NPR broadcaster whose reporting has focused on the Middle East, conflict, migration, race, and American Muslim communities. Before becoming a host of Morning Edition and Up First, she served as NPR’s Cairo-based international correspondent and covered the Arab Spring, the fall of Mosul to ISIS, and its aftermath. Her earlier work included reporting on the Iraq War for The Washington Post and McClatchy newspapers.