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...
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...
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...
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,...
Federal legislation is needed to expose this influence operation
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...
The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools
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...
It’s time for Washington to drop the rose-tinted glasses and make clear that America is not up for sale
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. ...
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...
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...
Qatar is also sending billions to a small circle of top-flight universities.
When President Trump hosts the emir of Qatar at the ...
“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...
First Lady Michelle Obama, on her first solo trip to the Middle East, is scheduled Wednesday...
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...
The Middle East’s most provocative, profligate microstate seems to be entering a more subdued stage. In a development Qatar’s neighbors should try to expand, the country’s new e...