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This artists' talk and book signing is presented by photographers Chantal Zakari and Mike Mandel.

They will present a lecture on their new artists' book, which examines the visual imagery of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkish culture. Zakari and Mandel, one American and the other Turkish, employed the imagery of Atatürk to create a portrait of the body politic: the symbol of the secular revolutionary hero, the power of the state that resides with the military, and in opposition, the demands for renewed religious political expression symbolized by the Islamist scarf.