Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, and Libya. In 2012, she joined Reuters as the Libya correspondent where she covered the country post-war and investigated the death of Ambassador Chris Stephens. Al-Shalchi also covered the front lines of Aleppo in 2012. She is fluent in Arabic.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author Stephanie Land about her new book, "Class," about making ends meet while going to college.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to analyst Tahani Mustafa about the history of Gaza.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author Virginia Sole-Smith about the future of the body positivity movement in the wake of weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Iran expert Mehrzad Boroujerdi about the relationship between Israel and Iran.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Howard University professor Gloria Washington about a new project that will make it easier for Black people to be understood by automatic speech recognition technology.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Mideast expert Yousef Munayyer about the history behind the recent attacks by Hamas against Israel.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with writer Roxane Gay about her new book, "Opinions."
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Moninder Singh about the reaction of the Canadian-Sikh community to accusations that India was involved in the killing of a Canadian-Sikh activist.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Atlantic Council researcher Alia Brahimi how corruption in Libya contributed to the devastation wrought by recent flooding there.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Brandy Nalani McDougall, Hawaii's Poet Laureate, about the Maui wildfires and what comes next.