Printed as newspapers and commentators trade comparisons with 1848  1917  1979 and 1989  in order to grasp the impact of the democratic upsurge that stretches from the Mahgreb to Iran  this timely visual essay in the form of a newspaper  revisits the book-ends of twentieth-century Communism and twenty-first century Islam  reimagining Polish/Iranian solidarity and exploring new lessons of the revolutions of 1979 and 1989