JEDDAH: Al Arabiya satellite channel will broadcast tonight at 10:00 p.m. a new documentary film titled “Inside Islam” in cooperation with the Coexist Foundation established by Mohammed Jameel, president of Abdul Latif Jameel Company. The film is one of the latest productions based on Gallup’s research and studies, which are conducted under the title “What a Billion Muslims Really Think.”
The Coexist Foundation (www.coexistfoundation.net) has developed a not-for-profit relationship with The Gallup Organization, in which the Coexist Foundation has agreed to support Gallup in order to transform world thinking based on a set of facts — the collective views of the world’s Muslims and Western populations.
“Inside Islam” is the latest documentary produced based on such studies and research work. A private reception prior to the world premiere of “Inside Islam” was conducted for approximately 180 officials from the US Department of State, including top officials such as the assistant deputy of the secretary of state and officials responsible for the Middle East in the department.
Speakers included Farah Bandith, the special envoy of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to Muslim communities, Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director, the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and Alex Kronemer, co-founder and executive producer of the Unity Productions Foundations (UPF), the organization that supervised the film production.
In addition, “Inside Islam” has been introduced through other organizations, such as USAID, and the film will be broadcast for more than 40 times in several countries through the official offices and think tanks centers there. Coexist Foundation has agreed to partner with Gallup in order to promote and support their work in the project over the next 10 years. Gallup has completed unprecedented research in the Muslim world and the next challenge is to make sure that the most important opinion leaders around the world are aware of the findings.
The summary of the project: “Can You Hear Us? What One Billion Muslims are Saying” analyzed facts about the hearts and minds of the Muslim people. If the rest of the world understands these findings, many of the causes of the acute tension between the Muslim world and the West would diminish and some sources of potential conflict can be eliminated altogether.
The Coexist Foundation has agreed to partner Gallup in the next phase of this project in order to transform world thinking on fact-based research.
This project is called: “Changing the Conversation: The Muslim-West Fact Initiative for World Leaders” www.MuslimWestFacts.com. Gallup is already teaching leaders about research on the Muslim world. The partnership will include ongoing worldwide research with questionnaire design, fieldwork, analysis and reports, designed around their research on the Muslim world.
