Our colleague, Leila Fadel, is in Syria learning some of the secrets of a government that has now fallen. Her latest revelation is painful enough that some people may find it hard to listen to ...

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: In the 1980s ... Screenwriter Zach Baylin based the film on the book "The Silent Brotherhood." As he adapted this story for film, he researched other acts of domestic ...

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: The road to Damascus, it tells the story of a new Syria emerging from 54 years of authoritarian rule by one family, the Assads. Today's Syria is no longer theirs. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: But first, Syrians woke up this morning to their first day in decades without the Assad regime ruling their lives. MARTIN: The Assad family came to power in 1970, when Richard ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to author Kristin Kobe Du Mez about how President-elect Donald Trump has emboldened the Christian nationalist movement. CapRadio provides a trusted source of news because ...