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Join us for an online lecture with graphic artist Soloúp (Antonis Nikolopoulos) on his book Aivali: A Story of Greeks and Turks in 1922, translated into English in 2019. Soloúp is a celebrated Greek cartoonist whose work has been featured in newspapers and magazine (To Vema, Pontiki, etc.) He is the author of many books, including The Collector: Six Short Stories for a Big Bad Wolf (2018), Sweet Dawn: Fourteen Stories from the German Occupation of Athens (2019), and History of the Greek Comics (2012). Aivali is a seaside town on the western Aegean coast overtaken by Kemal Atatürk’s army on September 5, 1922. Soloúp narrates the sufferings of the Asia Minor Catastrophe through the eye-witness accounts of four Aivali natives, authors Elias Venezis, Agapi Venezi-Molyviati, Photis Kontoglou, and Ahmet Yorulmaz.