Orlin Sabev is a Professor of History at the Institute for Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracian Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he obtained his Ph.D. degree with a doctoral thesis on the Ottoman education institutions of Bulgaria in the 15^th-18^th centuries. In 2005 he became an Associate Professor at the same Institute, after defending his habilitation thesis about the first Ottoman Turkish printing press (1726-1746). In 2015 he achieved a Dr Habil. degree by defending a habilitation thesis on the educational policies of Robert College in Istanbul (1863-1933). Orlin Sabev is the author of over 100 articles dedicated to Ottoman cultural and social history (Islamic mysticism, printing, the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, Ottoman diplomacy, prostitution) and Ottoman paleography. Selected works: Ottoman Schools in Bulgarian Lands (15^th-18^th Centuries), Sofia, 2001 (in Bulgarian); İbrahim Müteferrika ya da Şlk Osmanı Matbaa Serüveni (1726-1746), Istanbul, 2006; Spiritus Roberti: Shaping New Minds and Robert College in Late Ottoman Society (1863-1923), Istanbul, 2014; The Book and Its Shrine: History of Ottoman Libraries in Bulgaria, Sofia, 2017 (in Bulgarian); Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture, Boston, 2018; Enlightened in the East by the Flames of the West: Bulgarian Students in Istanbul (19^th-20^th Centuries), Sofia, 2019 (in Bulgarian); The Dance of Cholera, Sofia, 2021 (in Bulgarian).