Beginning as an investigation into the apparently disparate events that bookend the twentieth and twenty-first century – the collapse of Communism and the Islamic Revolution in Iran – Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz traces unlikely points of convergence in Iran and Poland’s economic, social, political, religious and cultural histories. Drawing on Slavs and Tatars’ multi-disciplinary practice encompassing research, installations, lecture-performances, and print media, this publication embraces new contributions in the form of essays, interviews, and archival presentation on subjects that range from seventeenth-century Sarmatism to the twenty-first-century Green Movement, taking in along the way, tales of the Polish Exodus, Wojtek the bear, craft, hospitality, Passion plays and taziyeh, and the political lessons of a Polish slow-burn revolution for contemporary Iran.

Contributors: Adam Michnik, Michael D. Kennedy, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Mara Goldwyn, Shiva Balaghi, Agata Araszkiewicz.

Editor(s): Slavs and Tatars
Design: Boy Vereecken/Slavs and Tatars
Year: 2017
Pages: 184
Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm
Cover: Softcover
Edition: 1500
ISBN: 9781906012427
Language: English