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November 2019

Graphic Novel AIVALI: A STORY OF GREEKS AND TURKS in 1922 at Consulate General of Greece in Boston

November 13, 2019 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free

A journey in time … a previous refugee crisis in the Mediterranean … this graphic novel dramatically tells the story of Greeks and Turks living as neighbors in the town of Aivali and other places along the Aegean Sea during the late Ottoman Empire; their subsequent expulsion from their ancestral homelands during a population exchange of Greeks and Turks in 1922, known to Greeks as “The Catastrophe” or the “Asia Minor Disaster”; and their subsequent lives as refugees. “Following in…

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.