1. Dalia Mogahed was selected as an advisor by US President Barack Obama on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
14 Facts About Dalia Mogahed
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Dalia Mogahed was born in Cairo, Egypt, and immigrated to the United States at the age of four.
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Dalia Mogahed received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering with a minor in Arabic from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Dalia Mogahed subsequently received her MBA from the Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Dalia Mogahed was selected as an advisor by US President Barack Obama on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
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Dalia 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.
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Dalia Mogahed is a board member and a leader in the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Arab World.
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Dalia Mogahed is a nonresident public policy analyst at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.
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Dalia Mogahed's clients included school districts, colleges and universities, law enforcement agencies, community service organizations, and local and national media outlets.
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Dalia Mogahed later appeared as a commentator in the PBS documentary Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, which was based on the book.
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Dalia Mogahed's analysis has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, the Harvard International Review, the Middle East Policy Journal, and other publications.
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In 2019, Dalia Mogahed was recognized in a list of "200 people who best embody the spirit and work of Frederick Douglass, one of the most influential figures in history" by the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University in collaboration with The Guardian.
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Dalia Mogahed rejects as unjustified calls for Muslims to condemn Islamic terrorism, arguing that there have been "many" such condemnations and that the demand "unfairly implies" that Muslims would support atrocities committed by other Muslims on account of their faith.
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Dalia Mogahed compares this with public attitudes to terrorist attacks committed by white Christians, noting that in these cases, "we don't suspect other people who share their faith and ethnicity of condoning them".