TOLEDO, Ohio — Award-winning National Public Radio host Leila Fadel will present the Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at the University of Toledo.
The free lecture open to the public is at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9 in the Law Center McQuade Auditorium, starting with a reception at 5 p.m.
UToledo said the Mikhail Lecture has been a continuous event since 2001. According to the university, it is sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the Mikhail Endowment Fund, "which was originally established through a donation from the Mikhail family to honor the work and contributions of Maryse Mikhail and her involvement in educational, philanthropic and interfaith organizations."
UToledo said the Mikhail Endowment Fund supports an annual lecture on Arab culture, history, politics, economics and issues of peace and justice in the Middle East.
Fadel, host of NPR's "Morning Edition" and the morning news podcast "Up First," previously served as an international correspondent in Cairo. She was awarded the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for her coverage in 2013 of a coup in Egypt. Fadel also won a Gracie Award for a story in 2017 about a single mother in Tunisia whose daughters joined the Islamic State.
Before NPR, Fadel worked for the Washington Post as the Cairo Bureau Chief. She also covered the Iraq War for nearly five years with Knight Ridder, McClatchy Newspapers and the Washington Post, earning the George Polk Award in 2007 for her coverage.
Fadel also won the Goldziher Prize in 2019 for her series produced in collaboration with National Geographic, "Muslims in America: A New Generation."
UToledo said Fadel was previously scheduled to present the Mikhail Lecture in October 2023 before being called away on assignment in Gaza.
Visitor parking for the event is free in Area 12, excluding reserved, metered and disability spaces. For those unable to make the event, UToledo said it will be live streamed on their YouTube channel.
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