Islam and the West - Episode 4: How Qatar Bought the West

About this episode

Yasmine Mohammed interviews Jay Solomon about how Qatar and Iran have influenced Western media and governments.

Jay Solomon, author of The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East and co-author of The Free Press report How Qatar Bought America joins Yasmine in Episode 4 of Islam and the West to discuss how Islamist governments like Qatar and Iran have spent billions of dollars infiltrating the media, education and governments in the West to control the narrative and spread their ideology. Jay Solomon is one of the U.S.’s premier investigative journalist...

People in this episode

Host: Yasmine Mohammed

Guest: Jay Solomon

Topics covered

• Islamism
• Media Influence
• Western Governments
• Qatar
• Iran
• Narrative Control

Keywords

• Qatar
• Iran
• media infiltration
• Islamist governments
• narrative control
• Jay Solomon
• Yasmine Mohammed

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Qatar, Iran

Books & works: The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East, How Qatar Bought America

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