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  • February 11, 2011
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Press Conference USA

This Week on Press Conference USA

William Dobson

Guest:    William  Dobson


Will Dobson, former managing editor of Foreign Policy Magazine, and author of a forthcoming book to be published by Doubleday about authoritarian dictatorships from Iran to China, talks to host Carol Castiel and Guita Mirsaeedi, senior correspondent for VOA’s Persian News Network, about how the pro-democracy movements in Tunisia and Egypt are prompting several autocratic Arab regimes to modify their policies.


 

About Us

This 30 minute weekly newsmaker program provides listeners around the globe with information and insights on a wide range of topics spanning US politics, foreign policy, global health, science and culture.

Host Carol Castiel and other journalists interview best-selling authors, members of Congress, senior Obama officials, US and foreign diplomats, heads of state and well-regarded analysts about a range of critical issues facing the United States and the world.


Previous guests have included Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; former National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft; Syrian dissident and democracy activist, Ammar Abdulhamid; the first Muslim member of Congress, Keith Ellison; Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Howard Berman; and Lonnie Bunch, Founding Director of the Museum of African-American History and Culture to name a few.

Broadcast Schedule

Press Conference USA is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays
Saturdays: 0430 1130 1230 UTC/GMT
Sundays:   0330 1430 1730 UTC/GMT
 

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Carol Castiel, Host

Carol Castiel, Host of Press Conference USA
As Director of Current Affairs Programming in VOA’s English Division, Carol Castiel is responsible for producing Press Conference USA, Encounter, and Issues in the News.  Carol moderates and produces Press Conference USA and Encounter. She also oversees the production of Issues in the News, VOA’s roundup of the week’s top stories by distinguished Washington journalists.

Prior to becoming Director of Current Affairs Programming, Carol wrote, edited, and produced the former documentary program, Dateline. She also anchored live newscasts for VOA News Now and worked in VOA's Africa Division.

Before joining the Voice of America, Carol was a consultant/free-lance journalist specializing in the promotion of trade and investment between the United States and Africa. She was also a contributing editor to the London-based West Africa Magazine and managed scholarship programs for Portuguese-speaking Africa at the Africa-America Institute from 1984 to 1992. Carol has traveled widely in Africa, Europe and South America and is fluent in Portuguese, French, and Spanish.  She holds an M.A. degree in International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. Carol is especially fascinated and inspired in her professional and personal life by the history and culture of medieval Spain known in Arabic as “Al-Andalus.”

 

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