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Dalia Mogahed

Executive Director of Muslim Studies, Gallup

Mogahed on mutually negative perceptions. Read More

How did Nelson Mandela find such spirit and such strength? Read More

Today is an age of asymmetrical warfare. Read More

Mogahed on the so-called "youth bulge." Read More

Religious and national identities are not mutually exclusive, Mogahed says. Read More

If it's a war of ideologies, what are the two ideologies? Read More

Co-existence is not enough. Read More

British Muslims are more likely than the general public to say that they identify strongly with the U.K. as their country. Read More

Nothing is worthy of worship except God. Read More

Muslims are very critical of their societies, Mogahed says. Read More

Do you want religion or do you want rights? Read More

Extremism is fueled not by poverty or piety, but by politics. Read More

Better information means better decisions. Read More

What do you stand for? Read More

Religion is often blamed for human action that usually has very little to do with religion. Read More

Introspection is key. Read More

Things can always be improved if human beings make different decisions. Read More

If you believe in one God, that means he created everyone. Read More

Mogahed is a translator between two cultures in conflict. Read More

A blend of the Western and the Middle Eastern. Read More

About Dalia Mogahed

Dalia Mogahed

Dalia Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world. With John L. Esposito, Ph.D., she is coauthor of the book Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Her analysis has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, the Harvard International Review, the Middle East Policy journal, and many other academic and popular journals.  She travels the globe engaging diverse groups on what Muslims around the world really think.

Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey representing the opinions of more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide, including Muslims in the West. She also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative, through which Gallup, in collaboration with the Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West.  She is a member of Women in International Security, serves on the leadership group of the Project on U.S. Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, and is a member of the Crisis in the Middle East Task Force of the Brookings Institution.

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