Profile of a SAJA speaker: Hannah Bloch Hannah Bloch was born in New York City and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She studied Urdu in Lahore, Pakistan, on a program run by the University of California/Berkeley. She started with TIME Magazine in 1991 as a science reporter in New York City, later working as a general assignment reporter in TIME's Washington bureau. In 1996, she was named the magazine's first fulltime correspondent in Pakistan and covered Pakistan and Afghanistan until September 2002. Concurrent with her TIME assignment, she was CNN's first bureau chief in Islamabad from March 2000 to March 2001. She is currently on a one-year leave while she is based at Stanford University as a John S. Knight Fellow. Last updated June 9, 2003