Introduction
Caroline Lehni – East and West Standing Face to Face: For a Material History of Cultural Contacts.

I. Scripting the Orient
Fanny Moghaddassi – Staging English Contacts with the Middle East in Mandeville's Travels;
Jacqueline Jondot – Gregory Wortabet "of Bayroot, Syria": A Failed Encounter?;
Yann Richard – The British in Persia in the late Qajar Era: New Historical Evidence.

II. Mapping the Orient
Damien Coulon – The English in the Levant in the 12^th and 13^th Centuries: New Geographical and Cartographic Approaches in the Wake of the Crusades;
Daniel Foliard – Conflicted Cartographies of a Peninsula: Deconstructing Fraser Hunter's 1908 Map of Arabia.

III. Objects Transferred
Gerald MacLean – Ottoman Things in Early-Modern England;
Christoph Heyl – Oriental Objects in 17^th Century English Cabinets of Curiosities: The Tradescant Collection.

IV. Sites Turned into Sights
Hélène Ibata – The Orient at Leicester Square: Virtual Visual Encounters in the First Panoramas;
Hélène Braeuner – British Travellers in the Isthmus of Suez, from Napoleon's Campaign (1798) to the Construction of the Canal (1859);
Wendy Shaw – Framing Istanbul: Resonances of the Photography of James Robertson in Envisioning the City.

V. Orientalist Contact Zones
Isabelle Gadoin – Jules Mohl: A Missing Link in the Complex Network of Nineteenth-Century Orientalism?;
Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam – The First British and French Archaeological Investigations in Susa during the 19^th Century;
Stéphanie Prévost – Dialogues with the Dead, and with the Living too! British Egyptology Societies and the Politics of Preservation (1882-1898).

VI. Transposing Legal and Political Principles
Pauline Collombier-Lakeman – Irish Nationalist MPs and the Egyptian Revolt of 1881-1882: An Example of Cross-Imperial Solidarity?;
Willem Floor – The Murder of Bibi Asilah: A failed early mixed-court case in Qajar Iran.