The Rumi Forum presented "Gulf Security: Iran, Iraq and the GCC" with Allen Keiswetter.

Allen Keiswetter, a Scholar at the Middle East Institute and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, has just returned from a trip to the Arab Peninsula. He will share his insights into the forthcoming Iraqi elections, US policy toward Iran and Gulf perceptions of Obama's first year in office.

Mr. Keiswetter has taught courses on global security, Islam and the Middle East at the National Defense Intelligence College, the National War College, and the University of Maryland. A retired Senior Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State, he has been Senior Advisor on the Middle East for the US Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, Director of Arabian Peninsula Affairs in the Near East Bureau, and NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs in Brussels. He also held posts at the US Embassies in Riyadh, Sanaa, Tunis, Khartoum, Baghdad and Beirut.