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Dalia Mogahed, co-author of the book, Who Speaks For Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think, will be in Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska in May in cooperation with the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy to discuss the Gallup World Poll research conducted over a period of six years. This event will launch a series of forums with Gallup and the World Affairs Council throughout the country in '08 and '09. Watch for your city on our website.

The Gallup Organization asked more than 50,000  Muslims living in  35 countries what they admired most and least about the west. The poll that claims to represent the views of over 90% of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims has been put together in the form of a book titled Who Speaks For Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think.

Check out our website to learn more about this event.

U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy's Executive Director Ann Schodde and Chuck Montgomery, Board Memer of the Center from MidAmerican Energy, were panelists at the recent Young Arab Leaders (YAL) Global Forum held in New York. Last year, the Center hosted 7 young Arab leaders from around the Middle East in Des Moines. This pilot program was a part of a broader effort by the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, in partnership with Business for Diplomatic Action, and the National U.S. Arab Chamber of Commerce, to promote understanding, knowledge exchange and business opportunities.

About two hundred American and Arab business leaders met at the Conference held on March 13-15. The Young Arab Leaders, a Dubai-based network of Arab business leaders put the Global Action Forum together.

This article published in the Arab American News provides a complete picture of the event.

I am a citizen diplomat because..
.."As a college exchange student in Nepal via the 'Experiment on International Living', I met a local man as I was on the 'Mt. Everest Trek'.  I spoke English, he spoke Nepalese, and we smiled a lot.  Without language-based communication he shared that he was in need of antibiotic cream for a very large wound on his leg.  I ended up giving him my tube of antibiotic cream, hearing my mother's voice in the back of my head to make sure I took care of myself.  At the time, this small gesture of generosity seemed like a major leap of faith and selflessness on my part, and I'll always remember the feeling I had as we parted ways.  An accidental meeting where need and resources met with no understood word exchanged was one of my first steps on the path to citizen diplomacy."