294 EXPERT ON ARAB GULF REGION TO ANALYZE IMPACT OF IRAQ WAR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mar. 8, 2007
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081


MTSU’s Middle East Center to Present Compelling and Timely Speaker

(MURFREESBORO) – One of the nation’s foremost experts on U.S.-Arab Gulf relations, Dr. F. Gregory Gause III, will speak on “The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of the Business Aerospace Building.
Gause is an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont and director of its Middle East Studies Program. He is the author of Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994) and Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influence (Columbia University Press, 1990).
From 1987-1995, Gause was on the faculty of Columbia University and was Fellow for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 1993-1994. He has testified before the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives, and his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle East Journal, Security Studies, and other publications.
Gause earned his bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) from St. Joseph’s University in 1980 and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1987.
This event, which is sponsored by MTSU’s Middle East Center, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Allen Hibbard, director of the center, at 615-494-8809 or ahibbard@mtsu.edu or Chantal Rich at 615-494-7906 or cfrich@mtsu.edu.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a color jpeg photo of Dr. F. Gregory Gause, contact Gina Logue in the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.