The University of Pittsburgh to Present A Lecture by Author Dalia Mogahed
PITTSBURGH-Author Dalia Mogahed will give a lecture at Pitt on the importance of understanding Middle Eastern clients in the global business world. The free public lecture, titled "Doing Business in the Middle East: Knowing Your Client," is at noon April 14 in Room 115 Mervis Hall, Roberto Clemente Drive, Oakland. A discussion with the Mogahed will immediately follow.
Dalia Mogahed (KGSB '04), coauthor of "Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think" (Gallup Press, 2008), is a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. She leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented study of more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide and also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com) through which Gallup-in collaboration with The Coexist Foundation-is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key international opinion leaders.
Mogahed's analysis has appeared in a number of leading publications, including "The Economist," the "Financial Times," "The Wall Street Journal," "Foreign Policy" magazine, "Harvard International Review," and "Middle East Policy."
The lecture is hosted by Pitt's Global Studies Program within the University Center for International Studies and cosponsored by the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business' International Business Center, the Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, and the Middle East Gulf Initiative Pittsburgh.
For more information about the lecture, contact Elaine Linn at 412-624-4780 or eel58@pitt.edu.
For more information about the Global Studies Program, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/global or
e-mail global@ucis.pitt.edu.
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