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CIAO DATE: 03/2015

Fighting for Moderate Islam: Ideas and Activism on the New Front Line

Mohammed S. Dajani, Zainab al-Suwaij

February 2015

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

On February 25, Mohammed Dajani and Zainab al-Suwaij addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dajani is the Institute's Weston Fellow and founder of al-Wasatia, a moderate Islamic movement in Palestine. Suwaij is cofounder and executive director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC). The following is a rapporteur's summary of their remarks.