WHQR’s Fundraising Luncheon with Special Guest NPR’s Leila Fadel

## WHQR’s Annual Fundraising Luncheon returns Thursday, May 22, 2025 at noon in the Hotel Ballast featuring **NEW** special guest NPR’s Leila Fadel

WHQR is celebrating journalism and our service to the community with a wonderful fundraising luncheon on Thursday, May 22 at 12 pm at the Hotel Ballast in downtown Wilmington.
This year, award-winning journalist and host of NPR’s Morning Edition, Leila Fadel, will serve as our luncheon speaker. Fadel also hosts NPR's morning news podcast Up First. Previously, she was NPR's international correspondent based in Cairo and covered the wave of revolts in the Middle East and their aftermaths in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and beyond. She has won multiple awards including the prestigious Goldziher Prize in 2019. Before joining NPR, Fadel covered the Middle East for The Washington Post as the Cairo Bureau Chief. Click here to learn more about her incredible career.

You can join a WHQR table or host your own. We ask for a suggested donation of $125 or more per guest at the luncheon or a host may choose to cover the $1,250 goal for the table and invite friends (payable by cash, check or credit card) . To join a table as an individual (s), email Mary Bradley and indicate the names of who would like to come. If you'd like to host a table, you can also email Mary for more information.