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In this interview, Asharq Al-Awsat speaks to Dalia Mogahed, a Senior Analyst and the Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies – a non-partisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world.
Mogahed has co-authored a book entitled, 'Who speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,' with John L. Esposito PhD, and has had articles published in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, the Harvard International Review, the Middle East Policy journal and many other academic and popular journals.
Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey representing the opinions of 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.