Who Speaks For Islam?
A special lecture given by Dr Dalia Mogahed
Years after 9/11, are we any closer to understanding what makes a radical?
Dalia Mogahed Gallup's largest study of Muslim populations worldwide challenges conventional wisdom and the inevitability of a global conflict as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue. Despite widespread media coverage of global terrorism from America and Europe to the Middle East and Asia, little is known about what majorities of the world's Muslims really think and feel. What do Muslims say about violence and terrorist attacks? What do they say about democracy, women, and relations with the West? What are their values, goals, and religious beliefs?
About the speaker
Dr Dalia Mogahed is Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies in Washington DC and coauthor of the book What a Billion Muslims Really Think (2008). She leads the collection and analysis of Gallup's survey of worldwide Muslim opinion, and directs the MuslimWest Facts Initiative, in collaboration with the Coexist Foundation, which disseminates the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West.
The lecture will be introduced and chaired by Henry Hogger CMG, Chairman of the Council for British Research in the Levant and a former British ambassador to Syria, who specialises in Middle East affairs.
