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Andrew Tabler 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. ...More	Guest
Yair Golan Yair Golan (Hebrew: יָאִיר גּוֹלָן) is an Israeli politician and senior military officer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Economy in the Thirty-sixth Israeli government, and served as a Member of the Knesset representing Meretz from 2019–2022. He is a reserve major general (Aluf) in the Israel Defense Forces. During his military service he served, among other roles, as the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Commander of the Home Front Command and Commander of the Northern Command. ...More	Guest
Soner Cagaptay Soner Çağaptay is a Turkish-American political scientist and director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also a historian by training and is an expert on Turkey–United States relations, Turkish politics, and Turkish nationalism. ...More	Guest
Joseph Braude Joseph Braude, founder and president of the Center for Peace Communications, studied Near Eastern Languages at Yale and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton. He is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. Over the past 20 years, he has lived and worked in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf states, and Iran. His most recent book is Reclamation: A Cultural Policy for Arab-Israeli Partnership (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2019). ...More	Guest