Negotiating Mutually Exclusive Identities: Study of Gay Muslim Men Living in the United States

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. Thomas ◽  
Michael Loewy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Muslim Men

Genocide

Peacemakers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Pardew
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Clinton Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim Men

UNPROFOR fails to prevent genocide. The slaughter of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in the summer of 1995 forces US action. The United States is going to Bosnia one way or the other as the Europeans prepare to withdraw. The Clinton Administration appoints Holbrooke to launch a major diplomatic effort to find a peaceful solution in Bosnia. Holbrooke grabs the opportunity to lead US negotiations to find peace in Bosnia.

Garments for One Another

Being Muslim ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 107-150
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black American ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Muslim Men ◽  
Muslim Identities

Chapter Three examines the lives of two of the most prominent Muslim women in the United States in the 1950s and 60s: wife/and later widow of Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz, and jazz singer Dakota Staton. The Muslim-ness of both women was inexorably linked, and oftentimes, wholly predicated upon, to their status as wives of Black American Muslim men. Through an exploration of how each woman approached Islam and marriage in their daily lives, the chapter argues that Shabazz and Staton viewed their marriage and Muslim identities concurrently, and through racial and gendered contexts in which they approached marriage as an integral component of their practices of Islam.

The Incorporation of Shari‘a in North America

2015 ◽  
pp. 698-724
Author(s):  
Natasha Bakht
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
North America ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relationship Dissolution ◽  
State Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Muslim Men ◽  
Islamic Marriage

This article examines the shari‘a debate in North America, particularly the argument that shari‘a must be banned in Canada and the United States based on the belief that Islam is a threat to western culture and that Muslim men are dangerously sexist against women. It contends that the mahr or bridal gift, a key element of every Islamic marriage agreement, must be enforced in North America as a means to combat poverty among post-relationship dissolution women. The article begins by assessing false assumptions and myths about shari‘a law and its interaction with state law and policy. It then considers how US and Canadian courts have actually recognized the diverse desires of their Muslim citizenry, paying attention to various Muslim requests and shari‘a-based rules. It argues that an outright denial of the mahr as contrary to vague notions of public policy is unjust and contrary to longstanding American and Canadian traditions.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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