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Q&A: National Correspondent Leila Fadel Discusses 'Muslims in America'

National Correspondent Leila Fadel shares her experience reporting on her special series and collaborating with National Geographic.
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Behind the Stories features perspectives from the reporters, editors and producers who create NPR's content, offering insights into how and why they do what they do. For this post, we talked with National Correspondent Leila Fadel about her work on "Muslims in America: A New Generation" and "How Muslims, Often Misunderstood, Are Thriving in America," products of a year-long reporting endeavor that aired on NPR and published in National Geographic.

Tell us a little about your background and how you got to this point in your reporting career.

I've long been an international correspondent, first for , then McClatchy Newspapers, then and now NPR. I've spent most of my career in the Middle East. I covered the war in

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