Qatar has dumped over $6 billion into American universities in the last four decades, according to a bombshell new report.

As of 2016, according to a Washington Post review of funding records, Qatar was spending a total of $405 million a year to cover the upkeep of six U.S. universities that operate their own satellite ...

But behind the gleaming towers of Doha and the generous endowments to universities lies a murkier dimension to Qatar’s ...

In spring 2025, Georgetown University and the Qatar Foundation renewed their partnership for another decade, reaffirming the ...

The U.S. Education Department alleged on Monday that the University of Pennsylvania's policy on transgender athletes violated federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in programs that ...

The tiny Gulf state has showered money on the U.S.’s military and universities, giving it outsize geopolitical clout.

On one hand, US officials and pundits privately ... Stephen Eisenman says that on one hand, Qatar’s higher-education funding is no “worse than any other foreign money.” ...

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Doha has poured nearly $6 billion into American universities since 1981, making it the largest Arab donor in U.S. higher education.The post Universities are selling out to Qatar, and selling ...

Qatar is handing over a $400 million Boeing 747 to the US government for Trump’s presidential fleet, and the deal isn’t part ...