https://www.wnd.com/2019/01/how-qatar-foundation-turns-language-class-into-foreign-propaganda/

Recent news reports surrounding the dubious activities of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have revealed the role in the sordid affair played by QFI, the American affiliate of Qatar’s immensely powerful state-development apparatus, the Qatar Foundation. QFI’s ostensible purpose is to provide educational resources and funding for the study of Arabic – which makes it all the more surprising that QFI director Maggie Salem was secretly ghostwriting articles for Khashoggi and encouraging him to take a hard anti-Saudi Arabia line. This sort of direct involvement in politics would seem out of step with the goals of a language-education foundation.

QFI has gotten involved in politics before. Sometime before 2014, QFI sponsored the Arab American Association of New York, at a time when radical Islamist activist Linda Sarsour was its executive director. In July 2017, a month after Saudi Arabia and its allies severed political and economic ties with Qatar, QFI and the Qatari-regime-owned Al Jazeera jointly produced a propaganda video condemning the so-called “blockade.” In November, QFI organized a panel discussion claiming that that the Gulf states’ isolation of Qatar was due to “fake news,” a claim that QFI’s Maggie Salem explicitly endorsed on Twitter. In general, it seems that QFI often acts as an agent of influence for Qatar – which at a minimum should require it to register as a foreign agent under FARA, or risk criminal prosecution.