About
The Persian Bridge of Friendship is a modest attempt to think about understanding, mutual acquintance and change in the space between the EU, the EU’s internal periphery (Central and Southeastern Europe) and the Persian-language world. More about Vlad Mitev’s vision for this site can be read here.
The blog The Persian Bridge of Friendship has been running since June 2020 and is the smaller brother of The Bridge of Friendship - a Bulgarian-Romanian multilungual blog, who exists since September 2015 and is a manifestation of a Southeastern European dynamic identity. Together with the Poland-based regional cross-border site Cross-border Talks, they are manifestation of efforts to bridge different spaces and the abyss between them, while also promoting their transformation on the basis of non-hegemony.
Conceptual texts:
Defintion of change in Bulgaria as evolution from static identity towards dynamic identity (February 2022)
Unlearning hegemony as a project for change in Southeastern Europe (October 2022)
The common elements in the philosophy of the three above mentioned cross-border media (May 2023)
The need for cross-border media that overcome polarization (Vlad Mitev’s speech at the Three Seas Initiative 2023 summit in Bucharest) (September 2023)
Neither technocracy, nor populism, but people’s agency is what can truly empower the people in the EU’s periphery (October 2023, Maynooth University, Ireland)
The philosophy of the Persian Bridge of Friendship (December 2023)
Life without armour and non-hegemonic foreign policy: a project for change in Bulgaria and its region (April 2024)
Publications on Iranian literature, philosophy and sociology:
Literature
Influence of the second wave of feminism in the Iranian novel Savushun
The Iranian masses as a source of social change: the reign of Mohammad Mosaddegh
The influence Of European intellectual ideas upon Iranian prose and non-fiction in the 60s and 70s
Philosophy and sociology
Heidegger as a key philosopher in Iran
Pre-revolutionary philosophical ideas on the subject of modernity in Iran
Al-e Ahmad’s fight against occidentosis as a modernisation project of Iran
The signficance of the Iranian Revolution: a sociological perspective from Bulgaria (interview with the late doayen of the Bulgarian sociologists Petar-Emil Mitev)
History
Bulgarian-Iranian relations from 1878 to the late 1950s (summary of Angel Orbetsov’s PhD research on the history of the Bulgarian-Iranian relations)
Articles on international relations:
The war in Gaza and Yugoslavia’s lessons unlearned
Iran and change:
Iran’s youth vs. theocracy: Iran after death of Raisi
Iran: a movement for life against execution
Intercultural communcation:
A key to a part of the Persian soul: Siavush and his mourners
