Title: Senior Analyst and Executive Director
Organization: Center for Muslim Studies, The Gallup Organization
Area of Expertise: Law & Civil Rights, Interfaith issues, Women’s issues, Youth issues
Media Experience: TV, Print, Radio, Al Jazeera, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Radio
Location: Washington, DC
Contact: Eric Nielsen
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Phone 202 715 3144
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 forthcoming book Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Her analysis has appeared in a number of leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, Harvard International Review, The Journal of Middle East Policy, and many other academic and popular journals.
Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup’s unprecedented survey of more than one billion Muslims worldwide, including Muslims in the West. She also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com), 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.
Mogahed travels the globe engaging diverse groups on what Muslims around the world really think. Her audiences include The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations High level group, The World Economic Forum Council of 100 leaders, The Brookings U.S.-Islamic World Forum, British parliamentarians, American senators, and religious leaders from every faith. She has discussed Gallup findings with a wide range of opinion leaders, including Quincy Jones, Madeleine Albright, Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Jeffery Sachs, Nobel Prize laureate Danny Kahneman, Evangelical leader Richard Land, best selling author Karen Armstrong, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, Muslim superstar activist and teacher Amr Khaled, Sheikh Habib Ali al-Jifri, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, as well as two of the highest authorities of Sunni Islam, the grand muftis of Egypt and Bosnia, their Excellencies Dr. Ali Gomaa and Dr. Mustafa Ceric.
Mogahed is a member of Women in International Security (WIIS), serves on the leadership group of the Project on U.S. Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, and is a member of the Brookings Middle East Crisis Task Force.
Mogahed was born in Cairo and grew up in the United States. She earned her master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in strategy from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering. Upon graduation, Mogahed joined Procter & Gamble as a marketing products researcher. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband Mohamed and two sons Tariq and Jibreel.
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