Ioana Feodorov is a scholar of Arab Christianity and holds a BA in Arabic and English and a PhD in Arabic Philology from the University of Bucharest (Romania). She taught Arabic language and culture at the same University from 1993 to 2004 and is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. She is the Principal Investigator of the TYPARABIC project funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (2021-2026). She leads a team of eighteen international researchers in the fields of early printing, Ottoman history, art history, the Arabic-speaking Christians, and Oriental languages. She is editing and translating from Arabic into English Paul of Aleppo’s Journal, which includes a chronicle of the Church of Antioch and Paul’s travels in 1652-1659 with his father Makarios III ibn al-Zaʿīm, Patriarch of Antioch, inside Ottoman Syria, and then to Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia, the Cossack lands (Ukraine), Muscovy, and Anatolia. She has authored several monographs and dozens of articles and volumes of collective essays. Selected works: Paul of Aleppo’s Journal. Vol. 1. Syria, Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia and the Cossacks’ Lands, introduction, Arabic text and English translation (Brill, Leiden, 2024); Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands. The East-European Connection (De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2023); Dimitrie Cantemir, Salvation of the Sage and Ruin of the Sinful World, introduction, Arabic text, and English translation (Brill, Leiden, 2016); Arab Christians between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe, co-edited with Bernard Heyberger and Samuel Noble (Brill, Leiden, 2021); Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books. Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project, co-edited with Oana Iacubovschi and Samuel Noble (De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2024).