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CIAO DATE: 09/2008

PolicyWatch #1365: Special Forum Report: Bad News or Bad Data? The Debate over Arab and Muslim Public Opinion

Dalia Mogahed, David Pollock

April 2008

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

On April 17, 2008, David Pollock and Dalia Mogahed addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Pollock is a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute and author of its recently released Policy Focus Slippery Polls: Uses and Abuses of Opinion Surveys from Arab States. Ms. Mogahed is executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and coauthor of Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think. The following is a rapporteur's summary of their remarks.

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