[kcvl]

Founders
The American Educational Trust was founded in Washington, DC in January, 1982. Its founding chairman was Edward Firth Henderson, a British Army Officer during World War II who served in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Co-founders were Andrew I. Killgore, AET's first president, who was U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar when he retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980; and Richard H. Curtiss, AET's first executive director, who was chief inspector of the U.S. Information Agency when he retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980.

In addition to the three founding directors, other initial directors of the American Educational Trust were Prof. John Ruedy, director of studies at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; former Democratic Member of Congress Thomas Rees of Los Angeles; John Law, Middle East correspondent for U.S. News & World Report for some 20 years before he founded Mideast Markets, a publication of the Chase Manhattan Bank; and Dr. John Duke Anthony, president and chief executive officer of the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations.

Subsequent board chairmen have included Dr. John Davies, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and the current chairman, the Reverend Dr. L. Humphrey Walz, former associate executive of the Presbyterian synod of the Northeast.

Masthead
Publisher: Andrew I. Killgore
Executive Editor: Richard H. Curtiss
Managing Editor: Janet McMahon
News Editor: Delinda C. Hanley
Advertising Director: Asma Yousef
Book Club Director: Hugh Galford
Administrative Director: Sara R. Powell
Editorial Assistant: Laila Al-Arian
Art Director: Ralph U. Scherer

[swilhelm73]

Yep, this is another Joe Wilson/MEI type Saudi Arabian front;

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/17

A number of former ambassadors to the Arab countries are on the Saudi payroll. Mr. Emerson documents that one of them, Andrew I. Killgore, said in public that his company did not do public relations work for Saudi Arabia when in fact it did. Offered a chance to respond, Mr. Killgore did not deny the charge. Instead he accused me of wishing to "silence" him.

[lainde]

I knew FReepers would get to the bottom of this! BTTT

[swilhelm73]

Oh, another bit I missed on first look through;

Editorial Assistant: Laila Al-Arian

Is none other then the daughter of indicted terrorist Sami Al-Arian

[AFPhys]

thanks for supplying background on AET.

[calcowgirl]

More miscellaneous info on AET

Washington Report on Mideast Affairs, put out by the American Educational Trust, a group of former foreign service officers known for vehement opposition to Israel.
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Rachel Corrie

University administrators, sensitive to the personal nature of the Corrie family's cause and protest, were considerate and receptive. The Brodersens were able to meet briefly with ISU president Gregory Geoffroy as he left the event honoring Caterpillar.

"President Goeffroy was very cordial. He accepted a letter from our family [and] a group of Rachel's e-mails sent from Rafa. We gave him those, and a book, Remember These Children, published by American Educational Trust, Americans for Middle East Understanding, Black Voices for Peace and Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel. he said he would read them," said Bonnie Brodersen, Rachel Corrie's aunt, of Ashland, Oregon.
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Palestine Unabridged

Betsy Mayfield, executive director of Axiom Foundation and producer of "Palestine Unabridged," credited many people with the film festival's success. "Many individuals have made 'Palestine Unabridged' possible," she noted. "Some gave financial assistance through The Axiom Foundation, others helped us find and select the best films available, and a special few encouraged us with kind words and provided cookies to sustain us during long meetings. In addition," she said, "staff members of several organizations worked on book lists, and a group of Ames film aficionados are conducting a film viewing and award program for the Palestinian filmmakers who have shared their talents with us."

Mayfield cited the organizations providing assistance in the production of "Palestine Unabridged": American Educational Trust, Washington, DC; Borders Books, Ames and West Des Moines; Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2003; churches and community groups in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Ames and the surrounding area; Columbia University, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, New York, New York; Des Moines Area Community College; Grandview College Center for the Exploration and Practice of Nonviolence; Host Productions and North Park University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Partners for Peace, Washington, DC; Octagon Center for the Arts; Trans-Arab Research Institute, Inc., Dartmouth University; The Tribune, Ames; and Safford Productions, Ann Arbor, Michigan.