Andrew Tabler is a senior fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute, where he focuses on Syria and U.S. policy in the Levant.
Mr. Tabler achieved unparalleled long-term access to Bashar as-Assad's Syria. During 14 years of residence in the Middle East, Mr. Tabler served as co-founder and editor-in-chief of Syria Today, Syria's first private sector English-language magazine; as a consultant on US-Syria relations for the International Crisis Group (2008); and as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs (2005-2007), writing on Syrian, Lebanese and Middle-Eastern affairs.
Mr. Tabler is author of Syria's Collapse and How Washington Can Stop It (Foreign Affairs, July-August 2013) and the 2011 book In the Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria (Lawrence Hill Books).