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Encounter is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays. You can also listen to us via affiliate stations in your area. Check your local radio station guide for more information.
 
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This Week's Featured Video: Host Carol Castiel explores the controversial question of same sex marriage with Jo Deutsch of the Freedom to Marry and Janice Crouse of the Concerned Women for America in the wake of President Obama’s edorsement of gay marriage.    (May 20, 2012)


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Carol Castiel

 		 Meet Our Host
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.

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. Carol is fluent in Portuguese, French, and Spanish. She holds an M.A. degree in International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.
About Encounter
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 the Arab Spring, US policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the rise of China, India and Brazil, to the Arab-Israeli conflict, developments in Africa and the future of renewable energy. Issues that affect our lives and global stability are debated in a free-wheeling, unscripted discussion of fact and opinion.

 

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11:30 PM - 12:00 AM Friday May 18, 2012

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What are the political, social and legal ramifications of same sex marriage in the United States? Host Carol Castiel explores the controversial question with Jo Deutsch, an advocate of same sex marriage, and Janice Crouse, an opponent of same sex marriage, in the wake of President Barack Obama’s watershed statement endorsing the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry.

11:30 PM - 12:00 AM Friday May 11, 2012

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Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations and Samuel Wells of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars debate the implications of the recent elections in France and Greece.

11:30 PM - 12:00 AM Friday May 04, 2012

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Cedric Leighton, military intelligence expert & Stephen Tankel, professor at the American University & scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discuss the threat from al Qaida, a year after Osama bin Laden's death.

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