British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Who Speaks For Islam?
A special lecture given by Dr Dalia Mogahed
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Years after 9/11, are we any closer to understanding what makes a radical?
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?
Dr Dalia Mogahed will deliver a special lecture on responses to terrorism and extremism. This lecture is linked to an international symposium on Islamic Studies in Europe, taking place at the British Academy, in conjunction with the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), on 23–24 March 2010. A summary of the symposium is available here.
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.
Lecture
6.00–7.00pm (please note time). Registration is not required and seats will be allocated on arrival.
Please note: This lecture will take place at the Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Streamed audio
Introduction (6MB mp3) 
Dalia Mogahed - (26MB mp3) Muslim opinion as revealed by Gallup surveys
Questions (26MB mp3)
Papers and Biographies
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Useful links
What a billion Muslim's really think (report)