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  • March 29, 2011
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This Week on Encounter:    Crisis in Yemen

Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside Sanaa University, March 24, 2011

Yemen Protests   (Reuters)


 

Two top Middle East experts explain the current turmoil in Yemen as well as the stakes for regional stability and overall counter-terrorism efforts with host Carol Castiel.

Guests:

Barbara Bodine: Former US Ambassador to Yemen

Roby Barrett: Scholar, The Middle East Institute
 

About Us:

Join host Carol Castiel each week as she and two advocates from the world of politics, public policy, or academia discuss and debate a critical issue in the news, bringing depth, perspective, and insight to the world around us. Guests discuss a range of issues from US policy toward Afghanistan and Iraq, the status of al Qaida worldwide, China-US relations, and developments in Africa to climate change, the rise of Iran, the Arab-Israeli conflict and US-Latin American relations. Issues that affect our lives and global stability are debated in a free-wheeling, unscripted discussion of fact and opinion.
 

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Encounter is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays
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Sundays:   0530  UTC/GMT
 

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Carol Castiel, Host
Carol Castiel, Host of Encounter

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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