{"id":123508,"date":"2023-03-27T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=123508"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:16:33","slug":"iaf-to-host-former-u-s-ambassador-to-oman-to-discuss-saudi-arabia-yemen-iran-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=123508","title":{"rendered":"IAF to host former U.S. Ambassador to Oman to discuss Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-123509 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Arabian-Peninsula-1920x1080-1.png\" alt=\"International Affairs Forum\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>NMC\u2019s International Affairs Forum continues on <strong>Thursday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m<\/strong>. in the Milliken Auditorium with a discussion on the evolving dynamics on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen and more. IAF will host <strong>Ambassador (ret) Greta C. Holtz<\/strong>\u00a0for this in-person event with livestream available.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-123510 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Greta-Holtz-headshot-low-res.png\" alt=\"Greta Holtz headshot\" width=\"180\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Greta-Holtz-headshot-low-res.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Greta-Holtz-headshot-low-res-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><strong>Ambassador Holtz<\/strong> served 35 years as a career diplomat with extensive experience in the Middle East region. Holtz served as Senior United States Coordinator for Operation Allies Refuge in Qatar from August-October 2021 and as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Qatar from June 2020 until April 2021. She was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department\u2019s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and she was the Senior Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) to the Commanding General of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from 2017-2019. She served as the United States Ambassador to Oman from 2012 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116031 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Jack_Segal_pix.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Segal International Affairs Forum\" width=\"387\" height=\"176\" \/><strong>Jack Segal<\/strong>, a former senior U.S. diplomat and former IAF Board co-chair, will moderate the discussion. Segal served in the U.S. Embassy in Israel as counselor for political\/military affairs during the first Intifada and the Gulf War. In the Clinton administration, Segal was the National Security Council director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and served 10 years as senior political advisor to the NATO Commander where he was responsible for Afghanistan policy. He is an active instructor at NMC Extended Education on a variety of global affairs topics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The event at Milliken Auditorium is open to the public and will be available to livestream, including a public Q &amp; A. The event includes a welcome reception with appetizers from Food Arabia at 5:30 p.m..<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">In-person tickets are required and available for purchase at <a href=\"http:\/\/tciaf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc\">TCIAF.com<\/a> or at the door for $15 per person. Attendance for students and educators is free. Registration is required to livestream.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">For in-person tickets, livestream registration, and all event details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/tciaf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc\">TCIAF.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NMC\u2019s International Affairs Forum continues on Thursday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Milliken Auditorium with a discussion on the evolving dynamics on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen and more. IAF will host Ambassador (ret) Greta C. Holtz\u00a0for this in-person event with livestream available. Ambassador Holtz served 35 years as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,3629,3617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercom","category-international-affairs-forum","category-student-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IAF to host former U.S. Ambassador to Oman to discuss Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and more - NMC Communiqu\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=123508\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IAF to host former U.S. Ambassador to Oman to discuss Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and more - NMC Communiqu\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NMC\u2019s International Affairs Forum continues on Thursday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Milliken Auditorium with a discussion on the evolving dynamics on the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen and more. 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