Inside the Qatar Influence Pipeline

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🗓️ 27 June 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Foreign governments have poured billions of dollars into American universities—but what comes with the money? Daily Wire Foreign Affairs Correspondent Kassy Akiva joins us to examine Qatar's growing influence on U.S. campuses, the ties between elite universities and the Gulf nation, and why critics warn those partnerships are reshaping academic programs, journalism, and the conversation around the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.3	Hello, I'm Tim Rice.
1:02.0	Welcome back to another edition of Behind the Story.
1:05.2	Joining me today is Cassie Akiva.
1:07.5	She is the Daily Wires Foreign Affairs correspondent,
1:10.6	and she's joining me to talk
1:11.6	about a new story of hers that is both shocking and important.
1:15.2	The headline is Qatar's billions in campus donations come with a dangerous price.
1:21.0	Cassie, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:23.0	Thanks for having me.
1:23.9	So let's just start before we really get into it by just kind of walking us through
1:28.3	this story. What's going on? What's the issue here? Right. So for many decades, there have been
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