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 ...

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LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Maybe you remember Brooke Shields as the face of Calvin Klein Jeans, the sexually exploited child in "Pretty Baby" or the funny lead in the sitcom "Suddenly Susan." ...

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Yeah. Pete Hegseth endured a round of questions about his past, as well as his qualifications and his nominations made it out of a Senate committee on a party line vote.

DETROW: Morning Edition host Leila Fadel is in Damascus, and she joins us on the line now. Hey, Leila. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Hi. DETROW: What's Damascus like? Let's just start there. FADEL ...