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Hana Baba

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Journalist @KALW Public Radio | Co-host @TheStoopPodcast @radiotopia @prx - kalw.org - prx.org - radiotopia.fm - thestoop.org
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Hana Baba is a journalist with 20 years experience in the world of radio journalism.

She is a reporter and host of "CrossCurrents"- a daily radio newsmagazine that broadcasts on KALW Public Radio 97.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She interviews and reports on ethnic communities, poverty, health, culture, religion, arts, and the global nature of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her freelance work appears on NPR programs, PRI's The World, BBC World Service, and New America Media.

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Bay Area Jordanian community celebrates Jordan's first time at the World Cup

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By Hana Baba Verified
| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified
This story aired in the Monday, June 22 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen! The Jordanian national soccer team is playing in the World Cup for the first time in history. The Bay Area Jordanian American community is a tightly knit community of just a few thousand people. In an event organized by the Jordanian American Association, a group of enthusiastic fans gathered for a street party in downtown San Mateo to celebrate.
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Mazra serves the Jordanian flavors of home

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By Hana Baba Verified
| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified
This story aired on the Monday, June 22 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen! "Nashama" is the nickname of the Jordanian national soccer team. It's a word for a group of people who are chivalrous and brave...but it also relates to being generous and hospitable. Mazra, a restaurant in San Bruno, serves food from the Levant—the area that covers Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Today, how this spot on the Peninsula embodies Nashama through food.
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The Berkeley shop that brings Algeria to the Bay

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By Hana Baba Verified
| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified
This story aired in the Monday, June 22 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen! Ahead of the Jordan-Algeria World Cup match, KALW's Hana Baba headed over to a favorite community store—South Berkeley Meat and Produce. People visit from all over the state to shop for nostalgic items from Algeria. It’s got a large butcher counter with all kinds of halal meat cuts, including a staple Algerian sausage called Merguez. Merguez.
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