Dalia Mogahed

Dalia Mogahed

Executive Director of Muslim Studies, Gallup

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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Mogahed on mutually negative perceptions.
How did Nelson Mandela find such spirit and such strength?
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Today is an age of asymmetrical warfare.
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Religious and national identities are not mutually exclusive, Mogahed says.
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If it’s a war of ideologies, what are the two ideologies?
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British Muslims are more likely than the general public to say that they identify strongly with the U.K. as their country.
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Nothing is worthy of worship except God.
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Muslims are very critical of their societies, Mogahed says.
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Do you want religion or do you want rights?
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Extremism is fueled not by poverty or piety, but by politics.
Better information means better decisions.
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Religion is often blamed for human action that usually has very little to do with religion.
Things can always be improved if human beings make different decisions.
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If you believe in one God, that means he created everyone.
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Mogahed is a translator between two cultures in conflict.
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A blend of the Western and the Middle Eastern.