NPR Fuels Foreign Desk With New Hires, Moves

NPR News has announced several new correspondent hires and appointments for its Foreign Desk. The hires and moves come under the new leadership of Senior Foreign Editor Edith Chapin.

Leila Fadel, currently the WaPo bureau chief in Cairo, will join NPR in July. Fadel is a known voice from North Africa, and in the past year, has covered the wave of revolts and their aftermaths in Syria, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia. She covered the Iraq War for nearly five years, receiving a George Polk award in 2007 for her reporting from Baghdad.

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