Leila Fadel

Leila Fadel (born 1981) is a Lebanese American journalist and the cohost of National Public Radio's Morning Edition, a role she assumed in 2022. She was previously the network's Cairo bureau chief.

Career In 2004, Fadel began her career in journalism at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a crime and higher education reporter.

In 2010, she joined The Washington Post Middle East team. On February 2, 2011, Fadel and photographer Linda Davidson were among some two dozen journalists arrested by the Egyptian Interior Ministry. The next day, Fadel and Davidson were released, but placed under house arrest at a hotel. Two local Post employees remained in custody, interpreter Sufian Taha and driver Mansour el-Sayed Mohammed Abo Gouda; according to Fadel, Abo Gouda was beaten.

She covered the Arab Spring and its aftermaths in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria for The Washington Post.

Personal life Fadel speaks conversational Arabic. 2006 - Katie Award from the Dallas Press Club 2005 - Print Journalist of the Year honors from the Houston Press Club

Recognition In 2008, Bill Moyers interviewed Fadel on Bill Moyers' Journal.