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Thursday, March 25th at 7 pm Michael Mewshaw author of Between Terror and Tourism For his sixty-fifth birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000 mile trip across North Africa. Along the journey he encounters food riots in Egypt, corruption in Libya, and an abandoned Star Wars set in Tunis. He braves sectarian violence in Algeria, narrowly misses a beheading (not his own), and encounters conspiracies in Morocco. Through it all both author and reader are immersed in a fascinating adventure that's sometimes tragic, often funny, occasionally terrifying, and always a revelation of a strange place and its people. "Mewshaw wonderfully engages the travel reader’s vicarious demand for history, cultural insight, and unexpected incident." - Booklist "Perhaps the best American writer you never heard of." - The San Francisco Chronicle