Fadel Joins NPR’s Morning Edition
Fadel will be relocating to NPR’s DC HQ, and her first day on-air with co-hosts Steve Inskeep, A Martinez, and Rachel Martin will be announced in the coming weeks. “We are delighted to have Leila join the Morning Edition team, she has had an exceptional career to date, covering some of the biggest stories of our time on both the national and international stage,” said Sarah Gilbert, NPR’s VP for News Programming. “Leila’s experience and range as a journalist and host made her the natural choice for this role, which she will take up from February of 2022, based in DC.”
Fadel earlier served as NPR’s international correspondent based in Cairo. In 2016 she returned to the U.S. to be a Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow fellow. In 2017 she won a Gracie Award for the story: She’s Lost 2 Daughters To ISIS; Will Her Younger Girls Be Next? Before joining NPR, Fadel covered the Middle East for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief, and 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. [Photo courtesy of Leila Fadel]