Andrew J. Tabler is a Senior Fellow of Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he focuses on Syria, the Levant, and U.S. Middle East Policy, and directs the Institute's Junior Research Program.Previously, Tabler was senior advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria Engagement at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Before that, he was director for Syria at the National Security Council's Middle East Affairs Directorate. Before that, he lived, worked, and studied extensively in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Syria Today, Syria's first private-sector English-language magazine. He was a consultant on U.S.-Syria relations for the International Crisis Group, and a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.Tabler has also been an editor at the Middle East Times and the Cairo Times, before becoming senior editor and director of editorial for the Oxford Business Group.Tabler’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. He has appeared on CNN, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, and the BBC. His first book, "In the Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria," was published in 2011.Tabler received his B.A. from Washington & Jefferson College and his M.A. in Comparative Politics from the American University in Cairo.