Edhem Eldem
Edhem Eldem holds the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman History at the Collège de France and is Professor of History at the University of Boğaziçi, Istanbul. A specialist in the "long" nineteenth century, he is particularly interested in the dynamics of Westernization and the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the West, the central theme of his lecture at the Collège de France. He is the author of L'Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l'Occident (Paris, Fayard, 2018) and L'Alhambra. À la croisée des histoires (Paris, Les Belles-Lettres, 2021).
