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A fluorescent molecular tension sensor for spatially and temporally mapping the mechanical strain exerted by cell-surface receptors in living cells is described. We report a fluorescence-based turn-on sensor for mapping the mechanical strain exerted by specific cell-surface proteins in living cells. The sensor generates force maps with high spatial and temporal resolution using conventional fluorescence microscopy. We demonstrate the approach by mapping mechanical forces during the early stages of regulatory endocytosis of the ligand-activated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).

N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.

This article examines the effects of 9/11 on the Arab American community with emphasis on how notions of patriotism have altered both American and Arab American life. Analyses of pedagogy, ethnic studies, xenophobia, racism, and stereotype are offered in order to highlight the complexities of the interaction between Americans of Arab origin and other domestic ethnic groups. The author concludes that 9/11 did not actually alter American attitudes toward Arab Americans, but rather reinforced attitudes both positive and negative, that had existed for decades. 9/11 simply offered racists and xenophobes a rhetorical trope that could legitimize their views, while it offered multiculturalists more reason to promote inclusionary ideals.

In his courageous book,Israel's Dead Soul, Steven Salaita explores the failures of Zionism as a political and ethical discourse. He argues that endowing nation-states with souls is a dangerous phenomenon because it privileges institutions and corporations rather than human beings.Asserting that Zionism has been normalized--rendered \"benign\" as an ideology of \"multicultural conviviality\"-Salaita critiques the idea that Zionism, as an exceptional ideology, leads to a lack of critical awareness of the effects of the Israeli occupation in Palestinian territory and to an unquestioning acceptance of Israel as an ethnocentric state.Salaita's analysis targets the Anti-Defamation League, films such as Munich and Waltz with Bashir, intellectuals including Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson, gay rights activists, and other public figures who mourn the decline of Israel's \"soul.\" His pointed account shows how liberal notions of Zionism are harmful to various movements for justice.

When prominent literary and cultural critic Edward Said died of leukemia in Sep 2003, it became more evident than ever how much his vast oeuvre of cultural criticism and political commentary polarized readers along predictable ideological lines. Said's death has occasioned a barrage of polemical attacks by Zionists and neoconservatives, usually ignorant of his actual politics and resorting to distortion and slander. Salaita discusses in great detail how his death was received in popular media.

The fiction of Joseph Geha and Diana Abu-Jaber is discussed. The emergence of Arab American literature relates to the sudden visibility of this community in the political and cultural topography in the US.

Throughout this book, I have been referencing various instances of racism directed at Muslims, Arabs, and Arab Americans without producing a sustained analysis of it, something I will do in the first part of this chapter. In the second part of this chapter, I will evolve the analysis of anti-Arab racism into a discussion of Joseph Geha and Laila Halaby, two authors who explore the dialectics of acculturation and integration in Arab America. Such a methodology attempts to highlight how social phenomena in Arab America are appropriated into thematic dynamics in Arab American fiction. I am interested in determining how popular images of Arabs in the United States influence perceptions of the Arab American community; and how, in turn, these perceptions are either contradicted or re-imagined by Arab American writers who explore the complex positioning of the Arab in American society and therefore offer examples of fiction that liberate Arab America from the limitations of established perception.

I have chosen for this project a title that warrants a moment’s explanation. In pluralizing all the nouns—politics, cultures, fictions—I have tried to do more than merely adhere to a humanistic trend of altering grammatical commonplaces to better reflect changed social dynamics. I am trying to inscribe the book’s title methodologically into its contents, because I will argue that emphasis on plurality is the only plausible way to discuss Arab Americans (an emphasis that nevertheless leaves us open to innumerable methodologies). It is impossible to speak of Arab America as a singular, unified entity. This acknowledgment certainly makes analysis of Arab America more difficult than accepting the illusion of homogeneity, but it is a worthwhile acknowledgment because it points us in the direction of truth, a direction I hope scholars of Arab America will strongly emphasize.

Throughout 2003 and 2004, when enough time had passed for sober analysis of 9/11, a plethora of articles interrogating the event appeared in scholarly journals, inspiring numerous special topics courses and symposia. Perhaps the most interesting of these analyses appeared in the Journal of Law and Religion, where Jonathan K. Stubbs explored race and the law in the United States with the rigor one would expect from a legal periodical. This exploration, however, occurred in the context of a shocking but pertinent question: “After the September 11 Catastrophe Are American Muslims Becoming America’s New N…..s?”1