EA on the Road: Talking American Studies

I will be at the annual conference of the British Association of American Studies on Thursday and Friday. 

Updates on the Iran and North Africa/Middle East LiveBlogs will be limited until Saturday morning. However, I will check in with EA staff to post some news, and readers are encouraged to keep us up-to-date through posts in Comments.

And while I'm gone, we have a feast of features --- today, you can read about the myth of a central US-Iran confict in the uprisings from Libya to Bahrain, learn how the US military blocked a UN investigator from seeing detained US soldier Bradley Manning, charged with providing information to WikiLeaks, see how "social media" is far from a new phenomenon in Egyptian protest and activism, and laugh at Stephen Colbert's Twitter demolition of Senator Jon Kyl,.