How Foreign and Domestic Radical Actors Captured a U.S. University

Executive Summary

Over the past three decades, malign foreign influence actors from Qatar, Turkey, and Malaysia have entrenched themselves at Georgetown University, using the institution’s campuses in Washington, D.C. and Doha as bases to propagate Islamist ideology, train sympathetic academics and diplomats, and fundamentally reshape Middle East and Islamic studies.

Georgetown’s links to these foreign regimes all trace back to the Safa Network, a Virginia-based web of interlinked charities, businesses, and think tanks run by a small group of powerful Islamist voices tied to violent foreign regimes, extremist movements and terrorist financing networks.