<p style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dejanirah COUTO</span></p><address style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">contact : dejanirahcouto@noos.fr</span></address><p style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prof. Dejanirah Couto holds 2 Masters degrees, a French Ph.D thesis in Byzantine History  and a Habilitation in Modern History at the Univ. of Paris X-Nanterre (2006). She is currently teaching at the  École Pratique des Hautes  Études - Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris, in the area of Maritime history, History of  Overseas European Expansion with a focus on early modern Asia and the Portuguese-Ottoman  interactions in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (16th-17th centuries). She is interested in political, social and diplomatic aspects and has published widely about the Arabian provinces of the Ottoman empire (Southern Iraq, Egypt,Yemen), the Persian Gulf, Iran and India (16e century), and on a number of subjects related to this topics (diplomacy, cartography, maritime warfare, merchant networks). She has also developed an interest in historical and ethnographical writing (chronicles, geographies and travel accounts). Her current work is centered on Ottoman maritime warfare in the Indian Ocean, especially in the Red Sea and the comparative history of empires.</span></p>