2 PM, Vox Pop, this Saturday,
April 28

Misadventure In the Middle East, book party, reading and slide show with British author/artist Henry Hemming

Henry Hemming is an artist determined to see the real Middle East, so he grabbed a friend and a beat up Toyota truck and drove there. Misadventure in the Middle East is full of insights, adventure, trouble, near-death experiences, and lots of lessons for us all. It’s a great read. You will laugh out loud and see a new side of the most misrepresented and mysterious part of the world. Misadventure is a perfect Spring/Summer adventure book for thinking people.

Misadventure In the Middle East, book party with British author Henry Hemming – 2 PM, Vox Pop

(Grab lunch at the book party! Get a Vox Veggie Burger and organic side salad during the event for only $6! Now on tap: Three Summer Wheat Beers! Dentergems Belgian Wheat, Circus Boy, and Widmer Heffeweizen)

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

We are pleased to announce that British artist and author Henry
Hemming will be reading from his new book, Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels As Tramp, Artist and Spy (2007, Nicholas Brealey Publishing) at Vox Pop at 2:00 pm on Saturday, April 28, at Vox Pop in Brooklyn. Vox Pop is located at 1022 Cortelyou Rd., Brooklyn, NY 11218. Telephone: 718.940.2084.

Misadventure in the Middle East is the story of one extraordinary road trip. Using his art as his passport and his beat-up pick-up named Jasmine as his transport, Hemming travels from the drug-fuelled ski slopes of Iran via the nation’s mosques, palaces, army barracks, secret beaches, police cells, nightclubs, torture chambers, brothels and artist studios all the way to Baghdad. From being accused on the one hand of being an Islamic extremist and on the other of being a British spy, from dancing in a dervish hideaway to a Fourth of July party with GIs in Saddam’s Republican Palace, he reveals an alternative Middle East that flies beneath the radar of the nightly news.