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In episode 13 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, it’s Melanie’s turn to take you to Small Syria. To sit by the pool with a group of Syrian w...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
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In Episode 12: The teenagers of Small Syria are learning a lot these days. They’ve been studying English and math and American history. And they ar...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:05
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In episode 11, as Ramadan draws to a close, Houda, her family, and the other residents of Tucson’s Small Syria are getting ready to celebrate the j...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:54
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Two students talk about life coming to the U.S. from the Congo.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:40
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America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode 9: Houda introduces you to another resident of Tucson’s Small Syria: her neighbor and classmate, Mohammad.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
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Episode 10: Houda, her family, and many of the residents of Tucson’s Small Syria are preparing for their first Ramadan in America.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Virginia's first historic marker to recognize immigrants.
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 08:45
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A Nation of Immigrants is what we are, always have been, and always will be, as long as we remain the United States of America. Bans on immigrants ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode 8: Houda & Melanie refer to Houda’s apartment complex in Tucson as Small Syria—16 Syrian families live there today, but a year ago there we...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
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Maryan Osman and her sister, Fatuma Abdullahi, are Somalis who came to the U.S. as refugees in 2014 and found a stable home with Annie and Randall ...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, KRZA, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
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Joanne Nucho tells her husband, Jeff Ono, about her grandmother, Isabel, who was born in a refugee camp after her parents fled the Armenian Genocide.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Houda and her dad, Houssam, on the porch at KXCI, Credit: Kathleen Dreier Photography
Episode 5: Houda’s father is in prison after being arrested in the street outside Houda’s home while her mother and sisters watched.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:19
Caption: Melanie: Hi, my name is Melanie.  Houda: Hi, my name is Houda.  Melanie: And you are listening to  Houda: Mn Huna  Melanie: Finding Refuge in Friendship.  Houda: Isme, Houda.  Melanie: Isme, Melanie. So Houda, tell me about Fridays in Syria.  Houda: Frida
Episode 4: Houda begins to talk about the unraveling of her childhood in Aleppo.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Houssam, Houda’s father, holds his newborn granddaughter Shooq in Jordan two days before the family left for America.
Episode 2: We begin to introduce you to Houda’s family.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
Caption: Houda and Melanie on KXCI’s front porch. , Credit:  Photo by episode 1 translator, Radwa Abdel-Barry.
Episode 1: In August of 2016, Melanie and Houda met at potluck for Arizona Welcomes Refugees. It was just a few weeks after Houda’s family arrived ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
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You may remember a 2014 StoryCorps about an Iraqi interpreter living in Minnesota with the help of a U.S. soldier. Three years later, the interpret...

Bought by WDBM and WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode, we hear from Amahl Bishara about her work with Aida refugee camp, the power of storytelling for the Palestinian cause, and how she...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 33:17
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We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
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Kweku grew up as a black Ghanaian boy in a white English family. But when a letter appeared from Ghana, everything changed. How do you make sense o...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 11, 2016
  • Length: 31:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Latin America's second major religion and the launch of our river of the American Dream.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2016
  • Length: 09:59
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Chitra, an American Book Award winner, is known for creating tales of vivid women characters who live in either India or America. She is the author...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
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It’s 1939 in southern France and World War II is taking over the lives of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle. In this well-researched historical nove...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Mable introduces us to 2Redbeans founder, Qinghua Zhao

  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:52