Qatar Foundation
Qatar covers its tracks: Gulf state spent millions to infiltrate American classrooms
Excerpt Qatar Foundation International has poured millions of dollars into U.S. K-12 public schools over the past 17 years. Qatari officials have long claimed that QFI has a “narrow philanthropic...
Op-eds
6 Reasons Why Qatar’s U.S. Financial Footprint Warrants Scrutiny
Qatar, a Persian Gulf emirate roughly the size of Connecticut, possesses outsized wealth by sitting atop the world’s largest natural gas reservoir. FDD has meticulously documented that this tiny country...
Insights
Mapping Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the United States
Memos
How Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Influence Global Narratives — and AI Systems
If you ask Google what Al Jazeera is, the answer you receive draws heavily on Wikipedia. The same is true if you ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or many other large language models. Wikipedia has become the working...
Op-eds
Qatar Influence Operations: Unmasking a Suspected Network
Memos
Time to Lift the Veil on Foreign Funding in K-12 Schools
State lawmakers in Georgia just won a major battle in the long war to reveal foreign influence in America’s K-12 public schools. A new bill, which recently passed both chambers of the state legislature,...
Policy Briefs
Qatar Is Pushing for ‘Social Justice’ Lessons and Arabic Classes in US K-12 Schools
Federal legislation is needed to expose this influence operation
Op-eds
Is Qatari Money Corrupting American Education?
History was made days before Thanksgiving when President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting the Muslim Brotherhood. The order creates a framework for gradually hobbling the global Islamist...
Op-eds
From Playground to Classroom
The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools
Legislative Testimonies
Georgetown University Awards Medal to Qatari Royal Who Praised October 7 Mastermind
Sheikha Moza bint Nasser celebrated Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar after his death last October. On April 17, Georgetown University awarded Sheikha Moza its President’s Medal at a ceremony marking the 20th...
Policy Briefs
Qatari Cash May Be Coming Soon to a Town Near You
It’s time for Washington to drop the rose-tinted glasses and make clear that America is not up for sale
Op-eds
Haute Qatar: Sheikha Moza’s Glamour Masks Doha’s Vices
Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser is revered as a champion of education, sustainability, fashion, and art. The glamorous female face of the Qatar regime — and the mother of its current emir — presents herself as a modern face of a traditional, conservative Gulf state. ...
Op-eds
Georgetown’s Qatari Branch to Host Former Al Jazeera Executive Who Praised October 7 Massacre
Georgetown University’s branch in Qatar has invited Wadah Khanfar, a former Al Jazeera executive who celebrated the October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis, to speak at its “Reimagining Palestine” conference, which begins in Doha on September 20...
Policy Briefs
Texas A&M to Close Qatar Campus
Texas A&M University announced on February 8 that it will close its campus in Qatar by 2028. “The Board has decided that the core mission of Texas A&M should be advanced...
Flash Briefs
Tainted Qatari Millions Are All Over Washington
Qatar is also sending billions to a small circle of top-flight universities.
Op-eds
Trump needs to tell Qatar’s emir to come clean about gifts to U.S. universities
When President Trump hosts the emir of Qatar at the ...
Op-eds
Hate Preachers on Qatar Campus: Obama Gives Qatar Undeserved A+ on Fighting Incitement
“Kill the infidels... Count them in number and do not spare one.” Blatant religious incitement of this sort feels like such a caricature of radical Is...
Op-eds
Michelle’s Dangerous Journey to Qatar
First Lady Michelle Obama, on her first solo trip to the Middle East, is scheduled Wednesday...
Op-eds
Meet Saudi Arabia’s Biggest (and Most Controversial) Twitter Star
Saudi Arabia is changing, some say. The authoritarian desert kingdom is becoming more responsive to the will of its people and the demands of the global information economy, say others. This idea...