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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You may have heard kids say "six, seven". We unpack what's behind the latest slang making waves in playgrounds and online.
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Two comets and a meteor shower may be visible to stargazers this month.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to reporter Greg Bluestein about Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who says her party needs to end the government shutdown and work with Democrats on health care.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to former politician and activist Sami Abu Shehadeh about how the war in Gaza affected Palestinians as a people two years on.
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Hamas responded to an American proposal to end Israel's war in Gaza and said it would return all remaining hostages. But big uncertainties remain over the proposal's next steps.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Shira Efron, senior fellow at RAND about how two years of war in Gaza has affected Israelis as a people.
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Women make up only 4 percent of construction workers on job sites working with tools. Some are worried that tariffs on building supplies will slow down commercial building construction.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the International Rescue Committee's head of emergencies, Bob Kitchen, about the aid organization's decision to close all its programming in Gaza City, amid an Israeli military takeover of the city.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Khaled el-Gindy from Georgetown Center for Contemporary Arab Studies about the latest Israeli strike on Qatar targeting Hamas leadership and Qatar's role as mediator.
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We look at what the U.S. block on Palestinian officials from attending the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting this month could mean for Palestinian statehood.