Dalia Mogahed
Dalia Mogahed (born 1974) is an American Muslim scholar of Egyptian origin. She is the Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies,[1] a non-partisan research center that provides data and analysis to reflect the views of Muslims all over the world. She was selected as an advisor by U.S. President Barack Obama on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Early life and education
Dalia was born in Cairo, Egypt and immigrated to the United States at the age of 4. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering with a minor in Arabic from the University of Wisconsin and subsequently received her MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Upon graduation, Mogahed joined Procter & Gamble as a marketing products researcher.[2]
Career and influence
Dalia Mogahed chairs the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies,[1] which conducts research and statistics on Muslims throughout the world. She was selected as an advisor by U.S. President Barack Obama on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Mogahed was invited to testify before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations about US engagement with Muslim communities, and was a significant contributor to the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group. She worked with Madeleine Albright and Dennis Ross on the US-Muslim Engagement Project to produce policy recommendations - many of which were adopted by the administration of President Barack Obama.[3]
Dalia Mogahed is a board member and a leader in several organizations, including the Crisis in the Middle East Task Force of the Brookings Institution, the Executive Board of Women in International Security (WIIS), the leadership group of the Project on US Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Arab World. She is also a nonresident senior public policy scholar at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.[3][4]
Prior to joining Gallup, Mogahed was the founder and director of a cross-cultural consulting practice in the United States, which offered workshops, training programs, and one-to-one coaching on diversity and cultural understanding. Mogahed supports step by step implementation of Sharia in America and opposes any ban on Niqab or Burqa in Public. She sports Hijab to show her devotion to Islam. Mogahed's clients included school districts, colleges and universities, law enforcement agencies, and community service organizations, as well as local and national media outlets.[2]
Recognition and publications
Arabian Business magazine recognized Mogahed in 2010 and 2011 as one of the most influential Arab women in the world,[5][6] and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre included Mogahed in its 2009 and 2010 lists of the 500 most influential Muslims. Ashoka: Innovators for the Public named Mogahed the Arab World's Social Innovator of the Year in 2010, and the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association recognized her with its prestigious Forward Under 40 award for outstanding contributions by a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Along with John Esposito, she co-authored the book Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,[7] which is based on six years of research and more than 50,000 interviews representing Muslims in more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations. Accounting for more than 90% of the world's Muslim community, this poll is the largest, most comprehensive study of its kind.[7] Mogahed later appeared as a commentator in the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think (2010), which was based on her and Esposito's book and produced by Unity Productions Foundation.
Mogahed's 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.[3] She was a participant in the second edition of Dubai Debates, on the topic "After the Arab Awakening: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Arab World".[8]
Tweet Controversy
On 10th of March 2012 Mogahed tweeted on her Twitter account: "To those siding w/Assad: he cannot deliver stability, protection of minorities, or resistance to Israel. He is a killer w/0 legitimacy."[9][10][11][12]
Further reading
- Esposito, John L.; Mogahed, Dalia (2007), Who speaks for Islam? What a billion Muslims really think, New York: Gallup Press, ISBN 1595620176
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- The Huffington Post: Cairo's Reaction to Obama's Speech
- The Economist: The United States and Islam
- The Atlantic: Anatomy of a Smear by Jeffrey Goldberg
External links
- Gallup profile
- What Americans Think about Muslims: Engagement over Isolation by Dalia Mogahed
- An Interview With Dalia Mogahed: “Corny as it may sound, I am proof of the American dream”
Notes
- ^ a b Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
- ^ a b About.com: Dalia Mogahed
- ^ a b c Gallup Profile
- ^ Women In International Security
- ^ Power 100
- ^ Most Powerful Women
- ^ a b c Amazon Review: Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
- ^ Dubai Debates 2 speakers
- ^ The Twitter Account of Dalia Mogahed
- ^ Obama faith adviser makes 'anti-Israel' remarks
- ^ Obama's Muslim adviser criticizes Assad for not being able to deliver "resistance to Israel"
- ^ Obama's Muslim Adviser: Assad Too Soft on Israel